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Erschienen in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 3/2013

01.06.2013 | Original Paper

Hydrogen from renewable palm kernel shell via enhanced gasification with low carbon dioxide emission

verfasst von: Tigabwa Yosef Ahmed, Murni Melati Ahmad, Hon Loong Lam, Suzana Yusup

Erschienen in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy | Ausgabe 3/2013

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Abstract

Hydrogen economy has become more attractive with the energy crises and environmental issues associated with fossil fuel utilization more so with the discovery that hydrogen can be produced from renewable biomass. This provides good prospects to Malaysia that generates abundant palm wastes. Nevertheless, there is still limited knowledge on kinetics parameters for hydrogen production from palm kernel shell (PKS) gasification. Hence, this work aims to develop a mathematical model that is able to describe the kinetics of steam gasification of PKS with in situ CO2 capture while considering tar formation. A mean-squared error minimization approach has been used to estimate the kinetics parameters of the gasification process. Using the calculated kinetics parameters the process efficiencies are profiled with respect to the effect of gasification temperature, steam/biomass ratio and sorbent/biomass ratio. The parametric study indicates that the three variables promote hydrogen production at different degree of influence. This developed model can be further extended to incorporate optimization study on the potential clean production of hydrogen from PKS.

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Metadaten
Titel
Hydrogen from renewable palm kernel shell via enhanced gasification with low carbon dioxide emission
verfasst von
Tigabwa Yosef Ahmed
Murni Melati Ahmad
Hon Loong Lam
Suzana Yusup
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2013
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1618-954X
Elektronische ISSN: 1618-9558
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-013-0606-6

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