Thermal and biological gasification

Conference · Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:140320

Overend, R P; Rivard, C J ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)

Gasification is being developed to enable a diverse range of biomass resources to meet modern secondary energy uses, especially in the electrical utility sector. Biological or anaerobic gasification in US landfills has resulted in the installation of almost 500 MW(e) of capacity and represents the largest scale application of gasification technology today. The development of integrated gasification combined cycle generation for coal technologies is being paralleled by bagasse and wood thermal gasification systems in Hawaii and Scandinavia, and will lead to significant deployment in the next decade as the current scale-up activities are commercialized. The advantages of highly reactive biomass over coal in the design of process units are being realized as new thermal gasifiers are being scaled up to produce medium-energy-content gas for conversion to synthetic natural gas and transportation fuels and to hydrogen for use in fuel cells. The advent of high solids anaerobic digestion reactors is leading to commercialization of controlled municipal solid waste biological gasification rather than landfill application. In both thermal and biological gasification, high rate process reactors are a necessary development for economic applications that address waste and residue management and the production and use of new crops for energy. The environmental contribution of biomass in reducing greenhouse gas emission will also be improved.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• OSTI ID: 140320
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-200-5768-Vol.1; CONF-9308106-Vol.1; ON: DE93010050; TRN: 93:003926-0051
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1. biomass conference of the Americas: energy, environment, agriculture, and industry, Burlington, VT (United States), 30 Aug - 2 Sep 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]; Related Information: Is Part Of First Biomass Conference of the Americas: Energy, environment, agriculture, and industry; Proceedings, Volume 1; PB: 796 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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09 BIOMASS FUELS
BIOMASS
GASIFICATION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
BAGASSE
WOOD FUELS
HAWAII
SCANDINAVIA
USA
HYDROGEN
NATURAL GAS
SOLID WASTES
ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
COMMERCIALIZATION
EMISSION
SANITARY LANDFILLS
BIOMASS PLANTATIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ECONOMIC IMPACT
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS
SYNTHETIC FUELS
BIOREACTORS
BIOTHERMGAS PROCESS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
COAL
INTERMEDIATE BTU GAS