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Sulfur containing organic compounds in the raw producer gas of wood and grass gasification

The detailed description of gas streams in biomass gasification plants is necessary for the correct design and operation of these units. Sulfur containing compounds are usually present in biomass gasification gas, since sulfur is typically found in the fee ...

Elsevier2014

Review, modeling, Heat Integration, and improved schemes of Rectisol®-based processes for CO2 capture

François Maréchal, Emanuele Martelli, Manuele Gatti

The paper evaluates the thermodynamic performances and the energy integration of alternative schemes of a methanol absorption based acid gas removal process designed for CO2 Capture and Storage. More precisely, this work focuses the attention on the Rectis ...

Elsevier2014

Thermo-chemical production of F-T fuels from lignocellulosic biomass: Heat integration of gasification

François Maréchal, Guillaume Boissonnet, Emanuela Peduzzi

This study focuses on the process integration of gasification in the thermo-chemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into liquid fuels thorough gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis (biomass to liquids, BtL). Two main gasification technolo ...

2013

H2 processes with CO2 mitigation: Thermo-economic modeling and process integration

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

Within the challenge of greenhouse gas reduction, hydrogen is regarded as a promising decarbonized energy vector. The hydrogen production by natural gas reforming and lignocellulosic biomass gasification are systematically analyzed by developing thermo-eco ...

2012

THERMO-ENVIRONOMIC EVALUATION OF AMMONIA PRODUCTION

Matthieu Perrenoud

The thermo-environomic assessment of the industrial production of ammonia has been investigated in this project. Thermodynamic models for the ammonia synthesis were developed on the flowsheeting software Vali based on the techniques used at LENI. Several p ...

2012

Catalysts for High Temperature Gas Cleaning in the Production of Synthetic Natural Gas from Biomass

Bio synthetic natural gas (Bio-SNG) is being proposed as an alternative to the natural gas of fossil origin (NG) [1]. Bio-SNG consists mainly of CH4 (at least 95%mol), has a high heating value (e.g. 10 kWh/m3N), and respects the quality standards of the NG ...

EPFL2012

A nanoparticle bed micro-reactor with high syngas yield for moderate temperature micro-scale SOFC power plants

Paul Muralt, Thomas Maeder, Bo Jiang, Dimos Poulikakos

This work introduces and investigates the a novel compact catalytic nanoparticle bed micro-fabricated reactor suitable for utilization in small-scale intermediate-temperature micro-SOFC systems. It is shown that the presented micro-reactor is able to produ ...

Elsevier2012

Development and Application of Devices for Online Trace Element Analysis of Thermal Process Gases from Woody Feedstocks

Marco Wellinger

When using natural or waste wood in thermo-chemical conversion processes, the presence of a number of heteroatoms (e.g. sulfur, chlorine, potassium and sodium or heavy metals) may hinder the processes themselves as well as pose a threat to equipment and/or ...

EPFL2012

Conceptual design of a thermo-electrical energy storage system based on heat integration of thermodynamic cycles – Part A: Methodology and base case

François Maréchal

This paper analyses the thermodynamic performance and proposes different energy integration schemes for a methanol absorption based acid gas removal process, namely the Rectisol® process specifically designed for the selective removal of H2S and CO2 from c ...

Elsevier2012

Thermo-economic modeling of fuel decarbonization processes

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

A systematic framework is developed for the thermo-environomic modeling, analysis and optimization of fuel decarbonization processes using precombustion routes to decarbonize the fuel by CO2 removal before burning the purified H2-rich gas in a gas turbine ...

2010

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