Print Email Facebook Twitter Attempts on cardoon gasification in two different circulating fluidized beds Title Attempts on cardoon gasification in two different circulating fluidized beds Author Christodoulou, C. Tsekos, C. Tsalidis, G.A. Fantini, M. Panopoulos, K.D. De Jong, W. Kakaras, E. Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Process and Energy Date 2014-06-26 Abstract Few tests have been carried out in order to evaluate the use of cardoon in gasification and combustion applications most of the researchers dealt with agglomeration problems. The aim of this work is to deal with the agglomeration problem and to present a solution for the utilization of this biofuel at a near industrial application scale. For this reason, two experiments were conducted, one in TU Delft and one in Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), using fuel cardoon and 50% w/w cardoon blended with 50% w/w giant reed respectively. Both experimental campaigns were carried out in similar atmospheric circulating fluidized bed gasifiers. Apart from the feedstock, the other differences were the gasification medium and the bed material used in each trial. The oxidizing agent at TUD?s run was O2/steam, whereas CERTH?s tests used air. When experiments with the cardoon 50% w/w–giant reed 50% w/w blend were performed no agglomeration problems were presented. Consequently, gasification could be achieved in higher temperature than that of pure cardoon which led to the reduction of tar concentration. Subject cardoonCFBdefluidizationtackling agglomeration problems To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:00cb5270-3e75-4234-971e-6ba9810bfc7c DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2014.06.004 Publisher Elsevier ISSN 2214-157X Source Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 4, 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s)This is an open access article under the BY-NC-ND license Files PDF Tsalidis_2014.pdf 1.4 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:00cb5270-3e75-4234-971e-6ba9810bfc7c/datastream/OBJ/view