Characterisation of Residual Char From Biomass Gasification: Effect of the Gasifier Operating Conditions

Characterisation of Residual Char From Biomass Gasification: Effect of the GasifierTo appear in: Journal of Cleaner Production Received Date: 13 April 2015 Revised Date: 21 April 2016 Ac

Characterisation of Residual Char From Biomass Gasification: Effect of the Gasifier

To appear in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Received Date: 13 April 2015

Revised Date: 21 April 2016

Accepted Date: 23 May 2016

Please cite this article as: Hernández JJ, Lapuerta M, Monedero E, Characterisation of Residual Char

From Biomass Gasification: Effect of the Gasifier Operating Conditions, Journal of Cleaner Production

(2016), doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.120.

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Table 1 Characterisation of dealcoholised marc of grape

Ultimate analysis (% wt., dry basis)

52.06 ± 0.13 5.75 ± 0.10 2.05 ± 0.04 0.14 ± 0.01 32.06 ± 0.27

Proximate analysis (% wt., dry basis)

Lower heating value (MJ/kg, dry basis) 20.4 ± 0.02 Specific surface area BET (m2/g) 2.56 ± 0.98 Apparent density (kg/m3) 629.2 ± 6.36

(MJ/kg, dry basis)

AI (kg/GJ)

(MJ/kg, dry basis)

Figure 12 Effect of temperature on FTIR char structure: (a) air gasification; (b) 54.6% air/ 45.4%

H 2 O gasification; (c) steam gasification.