An experimental study on hydrogen-rich gas production via steam gasification of biomass in a research-scale fluidized bed

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 427-432

  Fremaux, Sylvain ^a   Beheshti, Sayyed Mohsen ^b   Ghassemi, Hojat ^b   Shahsavan Markadeh, Rasoul ^b  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biomass particle size; Fluidized bed; Hydrogen production

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GASIFICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; STEAM; TAR;

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOMASS PARTICLE; FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS; HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION; HYDROGEN-RICH GAS; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; REACTOR TEMPERATURES; STEAM GASIFICATION;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84920156050     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.12.048     Document Type: Article

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