ASPECTS ON RESIDUAL BIOMASS TO GAS FUEL CONVERSION USING AIR AS OXIDIZER

This paper presents the experimental results and process analysis of residual food waste air gasification. The experiments were conducted on a batch tubular reactor at laboratory scale, using air at atmospheric pressure as oxidizer. Temperature and equivalent ratio (ER) were varied to assess the optimum process parameters for this particular type of biomass. The temperature was varied between 650 degrees C and 850 degrees C, and the ER between 0.25 and 0.35. The process performance was evaluated in terms of syngas specific energy content, carbon conversion efficiency and cold/hot-gas efficiency.