ALL ABOUT BIOMASS GASIFICATION

 

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FULL CONTENT LIST:

Technologies:

  • Biomass Sources
    • What is Biomass
    • Wood
      • Uses of wood
      • Forestry
      • Calorific value
    • Energy crops
      • Plantations
      • Short Rotation Forestry
      • Trees
      • Wood fuel
      • Energy crops requirements
      • Annual & perennial plants
    • Residues
    • Forest & agricultural residues
    • Wood processing residues
    • MSW & other residues
  • Solid Biofuels
    • Production
      • Fire wood/logs
      • Chips, briquettes & pellets
      • Bales
    • Properties
      • Important properties of Biofuels
      • Composition
      • Moisture
      • Ash
      • Density in storage
  • Solid Biomass Production & Handling
    • Harvesting, Supply & Transport
      • Wood harvesting
      • Straw baling systems
      • Transporting of straw and bales
      • Wood Handling in Power Plant
    • Handling in power plant
      • Handling in processing
      • Fuel and straw storage
      • Handling
      • Screening and feeding
    • Drying
      • Open air drying
      • Flue gas drying
      • Rotary drum dryers
      • Circulating and fixed bad dryers
      • Steam dryers
      • Solar dryers
    • Processing
      • Processing of powdered fuels
      • Pelletising process
      • Press
  • Gasification Technology
    • Overview
      • Conversion processes
      • Gasification activities in Europe
    • Fixed Bed technology
      • Gasification reactor types
      • Fixed bed
      • Updraft & downdraft
      • Cross current
      • Two stages
    • Fluid Bed & others
      • Fluid bed gasifiers
      • Main types
      • Circulating Fluid bed (CFB)
      • Allothermal processes
      • Twin fluid beds
      • Fast Internally circulating Fluid bed (FICFB)
      • Special types
      • Pressurised & atmospheric operation
      • Advantages and disadvantages
      • Advanced power cycles
      • Co-firing of biomass and fossil fuels
      • Performance characteristics of gasifiers
    • Gas Cleaning, Conditioning and Use
      • Overview
      • Clean-up methods
      • Cyclones
      • Rotational Particle separator
      • Filters
      • Scrubbers
      • Electrostatic filters
      • Dust collection
      • Demisters
      • Tar removal & cracking
      • Hot gas cleaning
    • Produced Gas utilisation
      • Gas burners retrofitting
      • Re-powering with gasification
      • Combustion engines
      • Otto engines
      • Diesel engines
      • Synthesis gas production
      • Turbines
      • Fuel cells
  • Gasification and environment
    • Renewable energy
      • Resources depletion
      • Sustainable economy
    • Ecological effects on bio energy
      • Pollution
      • Greenhouse effect
      • Anthropogenic climate change
      • CO 2 emissions
      • Acidification
      • Acid rain
    • Gasification possibilities
      • Combined Heat & Power (CHP)
      • Future developments
  • Environmental, Health & Safety aspects
    • Health & safety aspects
    • Dust
    • Waste water & condensables
    • Tars
    • Fly ash & char
    • Odour
    • Hazards
  • Economics
    • Overview
      • Gas cleaning system costs
      • Biomass costs
    • General benefits
      • Future potential of Biomass gasification
      • Biomass use in general
      • Job creation
      • Other benefits

Directory:

  • Biomass Gasification Installations suppliers
  • Institutions: including: R&D Centres, Education &Training.

Databank

  • THESAURUS / GLOSSARY:
    • Keywords & Acronyms
    • definitions (translations in 4-5 languages (FR-DE-IT-SP-NL)
  • CONVERSIONS
  • PUBLICATIONS: selection of relevant publications
  • MEDIA GALLERY: Media Gallery photos + drawings + diagrams:
  • LEGISLATION :
    • Policy – Regulations – Subsidies
    • European Union and Rest of the world
  • CHOICE OF PATH
    • Educational
    • Guided tour
    • Build your own path
  • WEB LINKS

Example Projects

Austria

Fluid bed

Zeltweg thermal power plant

Austria

Fixed bed

Tina project

 

 

 

Belgium

Fixed bed

TCR Gazel pilot plant

Belgium

Fluid bed

Binagas project

 

 

 

Brazil

Fluid bed

The Brazilian BIG-GT project

 

 

 

Canada

Pyrolysis

Pyrocycling combined cycle system

 

 

 

China

Fixed bed

Biomass domestic cooking gasifiers in China

 

 

 

Finland

Fluid bed

Ivosdig process

Finland

Fluid bed

Kymijärvi CHP power plant

Finland

Fluid bed

Carbona pressurised fluidised bed gasification pilot plant

Finland

Fluid bed

Pyroflow fluidised bed gasifiers

Finland

Fixed bed

Fixed bed gasification process Bioneer

 

 

 

Germany

Fluid bed

Lurgi pilot plant

Germany

Pyrolysis /Gasification

The Carbo-V process of UET

Germany

Pyrolysis /Gasification

Pyrolysis and gasification Noell plant

Germany

Fixed bed

The Thermo-Prozessor, formerly Wamsler

 

 

 

Italy

Fluid bed

Rossano Calabro gasification plant

Italy

Fixed bed

Small scale gasifier for pine cones

Italy

Fluid bed

C.C.T. demostration plant

Italy

 

Pyrolysis/ Gasification

 

Thermoselect: energy and raw material recovery

Italy

Fixed bed

Daneco demonstration plant

Italy

Fluid bed

Energy Farm project

Italy

Fluid bed

Greve-in-Chianti waste gasification project

 

 

 

Norway

Fixed bed

The Notodden waste to energy recovery plant

 

 

 

Spain

Fluid bed

Gasification plant Enamora

Spain

Moving bed

Gasification of almond shells for electricity production

 

 

 

Sweden

Fluid bed

Chemrec plant

Sweden

Fluid bed

The Värnamo IGCC plant

 

 

 

Switzerland

Fixed bed

Dasag gasifier application in Switzerland

 

 

 

The Netherlands

Fluid bed

Amergas project

The Netherlands

Fluid bed

De Schelde sludge gasification process

The Netherlands

Fluid bed

Co-gasification of coal and biomass

 

 

 

UK

Fluid bed

Arbre project

 

 

 

USA

Fluid bed

 

Small scale biomass fueled gas turbine power plant

USA

Fluid bed

Hawaii biomass gasification facility - BGF

USA

Fluid bed

Vermont gasifier project

Author:

  • Dr. Ing. Gian Luca FERRERO - LIOR Belgium

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