10.5071/19THEUBCE2011-VP2.4.14
Medrano, J.A.
J.A.
Medrano
Ramachandran, R.P.B.
R.P.B.
Ramachandran
Van Rossum, G.
G.
Van Rossum
García, L.
L.
García
Arauzo, J.
J.
Arauzo
Kersten, S.R.A.
S.R.A.
Kersten
Syngas Production from Pyrolysis Liquid at Low S/C Ratio
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
2011
Conference paper
Biomass
2011
en
978-88-89407-55-4
5 Pages
application/pdf
Proceedings of the 19th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 6-10 June 2011, pp. 1577-1581
Flexible technologies producing different fuels and chemicals will be needed in order to overcome new operational drawbacks for the processing of organic feedstock such as the pyrolysis oil that presents a complex composition and very heterogeneous properties depending on the nature of the feedstock and its production process. The present work focuses on the syngas production by catalytic steam reforming of the entire pyrolysis oil at low steam to carbon molar ratio (S/C). The decoupling of the evaporation of pyrolysis oil from the catalytic steam reforming allowed the optimisation of every stage and thus the overall process. The steam reforming was carried out at 850 ºC, GC1HSV ~ 1500 h1 and S/C ratios ~ 1.0 generating ~ 1.5 m3STP/kg of synthesis gas with H2/CO molar ratio ~ 2. The prepared Ni/AlMg catalyst used in the present work resulted in an improved performance in comparison to a commercial naphtha reforming catalyst as the last one showed irreversible deactivation after regeneration test.
Proceedings of the 19th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 6-10 June 2011, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1577-1581