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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2010, Vol. 11 Issue (8): 619-628    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A0900792
Chemical and Environmental Engineering     
Simulation of municipal solid waste gasification for syngas production in fixed bed reactors
Chong Chen, Yu-qi Jin, Jian-hua Yan, Yong Chi
State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Abstract  This study proposes a model of syngas production from municipal solid waste (MSW) gasification with air in fixed bed reactors. The model (using Aspen plus simulator) is used to predict the results of MSW gasification and to provide some process fundamentals concerning syngas production from MSW gasification. The effects of gasification temperature, air equivalence ratio and moisture concentration on the composition of syngas, lower heating value (LHV) of syngas, heat conversion efficiency, and carbon conversion are discussed. The results indicate that higher temperature improves gasification, and higher air equivalence ratio increases the carbon conversion while decreasing syngas LHV. Heat conversion efficiency increases and reaches the maximum and then decreases with the increase of air equivalence ratio. Higher moisture concentration increases the carbon conversion and increases the heat conversion efficiency at lower ratios. Higher temperature and a lower equivalence ratio are favorable for obtaining a higher LHV of syngas at the same moisture concentration.

Key wordsMunicipal solid waste (MSW)      Gasification      Syngas      Aspen plus      Fixed bed     
Received: 25 December 2009      Published: 02 August 2010
CLC:  X705  
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Chong Chen, Yu-qi Jin, Jian-hua Yan, Yong Chi. Simulation of municipal solid waste gasification for syngas production in fixed bed reactors. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2010, 11(8): 619-628.

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