A new method for energy gas producing from biomass

Abstract

Biomass is known to be an alternative source of energy due to its availability and less environmental impacts in comparison with fossil fuels. Widespread of biomass allows us to solve the problems associated with development of local energy production. The developed at the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences technology for biomass energy utilization let to reduce energy consumption. It is achieved through the use of energy released during exothermic reactions, which is accompanied by heating of various types of biomass, which, as it follows from the literature, is realized for the first time in the processes of gas fuel producing. The second energy-saving factor of the developed technology is that the heat source is the gas piston power unit (GPU) combustion products. In this case, a cogeneration scheme is implemented. The results of experiments on the biomass conversion in GPU combustion products medium and numerical calculations in a one-dimensional non-stationary approximation are presented. The method of biomass thermal conversion under development will make it possible to obtain gas fuel or energy supply systems at local fuel and energy resources.