A comparison of energy recovery from MSW through plasma gasification and entrained flow gasification

Luca Mazzoni; Manar Almazrouei; Chaouki Ghenai; Isam Janajreh

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.233

A comparison of energy recovery from MSW through plasma gasification and entrained flow gasification

Luca Mazzoni, Manar Almazrouei, Chaouki Ghenai, Isam Janajreh

Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering

University of Sharjah

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Abstract

This work presents a comparison between two thermochemical conversion pathways for energy recovery from waste, entrained flow, and plasma gasification. The software Aspen Plus was used to build two equilibrium models to simulate the behavior of the two gasification processes when the feedstock consists of hand sorted municipal solid waste (MSW) with medium-high heating value. The impact of various level of air oxygen enrichment is investigated by comparing side-to-side the performance of the two processes in terms of syngas composition, syngas lower heating value and cold gas efficiency (CGE). As the results suggest, plasma gasification, with a maximum CGE of 74.8% can be considered a better option than entrained flow gasification with a CGE of 71.6%.

Original language	British English
Pages (from-to)	3480-3485
Number of pages	6
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	142
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.233
State	Published - 2017
Event	9th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2017 - Cardiff, United Kingdom Duration: 21 Aug 2017 → 24 Aug 2017

Keywords

Aspen Plus modeling
cold gas efficiency
entrained flow gasification
municipal solid waste
Plasma gasification

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A comparison of energy recovery from MSW through plasma gasification and entrained flow gasification

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