Supercritical water gasification of biomass: Thermodynamic analysis with direct Gibbs free energy minimization

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-267

  Tang, Huiqing ^a   Kitagawa, Kuniyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomass; Gibbs free energy minimization; PR equation of state; SCWG; Thermodynamic analysis

Indexed keywords

GASIFICATION; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; GLUCOSE; METHANOL; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

ENERGY MINIMIZATION; SUPERCRITICAL WATER GASIFICATION (SWG); WATER REFORMING;

BIOMASS;

GASIFICATION;

EOS;

EID: 14044278897     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2004.12.021     Document Type: Article

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