Data di Pubblicazione:
2017
Citazione:
Integrated reactor staging and plant optimization of a Biomass-To-Liquid technology / C. Pirola, M. Galimberti, A. Comazzi, G. Bozzano, M. Hillestad, F. Manenti. - In: COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. - ISSN 0098-1354. - 106(2017), pp. 719-729.
Abstract:
In this work an industrial Biomass-To-Liquid (BTL) plant simulation and optimization are presented. Biomass is first gasified with oxygen and steam, and the produced syngas is fed to a multi-tubular fixed bed reactor for Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis, obtaining a distribution of hydrocarbons with different molecular weight. A simplified model for the biomass gasification section is implemented in HYSYS® V8.4, while the Fischer-Tropsch reactor is simulated using MATLAB® R2013a. The kinetic parameters of the FT reaction have been determined by using a non-liner regression performed with the experimenta data obtained with a bench-scale FT-rig. The model developed for the Fischer-Tropsch reactor takes into account the catalytic pellet's effectiveness factor and the eventual formation of a liquid phase in each point along reactor's axial coordinate. The whole BTL plant is simulated connecting MATLAB and HYSYS. Moreover, the staging of the Fischer-Tropsch reactor is studied performing a techno-economic analysis of three different plant configurations and evaluating the corresponding pay-back time.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Biomass-To-Liquid; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis; Gasification; Reactor staging; Techno-economic analysis; Chemical Engineering (all); Computer Science Applications; 1707; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Elenco autori:
C. Pirola, M. Galimberti, A. Comazzi, G. Bozzano, M. Hillestad, F. Manenti
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