TY - JOUR
T1 - The conversion of anaerobic digestion waste into biofuels via a novel Thermo-Catalytic Reforming process
AU - Neumann, Johannes
AU - Meyer, Johannes
AU - Ouadi, Miloud
AU - Apfelbacher, Andreas
AU - Binder, Samir
AU - Hornung, Andreas
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Producing energy from biomass and other organic waste residues is essential for sustainable development. Fraunhofer UMSICHT has developed a novel reactor which introduces the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) process. The TCR® is a process which can convert any type of biomass and organic feedstocks into a variety of energy products (char, bio-oil and permanent gases). The aim of this work was to demonstrate this technology using digestate as the feedstock and to quantify the results from the post reforming step. The temperature of a post reformer was varied to achieve optimised fuel products. The hydrogen rich permanent gases produced were maximised at a post reforming temperature of 1023 K. The highly de-oxygenated liquid bio-oil produced contained a calorific value of 35.2 MJ/kg, with significantly improved fuel physical properties, low viscosity and acid number. Overall digestate showed a high potential as feedstock in the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming to produce pyrolysis fuel products of superior quality.
AB - Producing energy from biomass and other organic waste residues is essential for sustainable development. Fraunhofer UMSICHT has developed a novel reactor which introduces the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) process. The TCR® is a process which can convert any type of biomass and organic feedstocks into a variety of energy products (char, bio-oil and permanent gases). The aim of this work was to demonstrate this technology using digestate as the feedstock and to quantify the results from the post reforming step. The temperature of a post reformer was varied to achieve optimised fuel products. The hydrogen rich permanent gases produced were maximised at a post reforming temperature of 1023 K. The highly de-oxygenated liquid bio-oil produced contained a calorific value of 35.2 MJ/kg, with significantly improved fuel physical properties, low viscosity and acid number. Overall digestate showed a high potential as feedstock in the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming to produce pyrolysis fuel products of superior quality.
KW - Agricultural waste treatment
KW - Bio-oil
KW - Biochar
KW - Pyrolysis
KW - Reforming
KW - Thermo-chemical conversion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.07.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 26190827
AN - SCOPUS:84958876855
VL - 47
SP - 141
EP - 148
JO - Waste Management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology
JF - Waste Management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology
SN - 0956-053X
ER -