Volume 54

Design and analysis of a biomass gasification facility integrated with methanol production system Dibyendu Roy, KV Shivaprasad, Jonathan Heslop, Abdullah Malik, Yaodong Wang, Anthony Paul Roskilly

Abstract

In this study, methanol has been produced from biomass feedstocks using Aspen Plus simulation tool. The proposed system is a combination of gasification plant, syngas cleaning facility and methanol generation plant. Hydrogen rich syngas was generated using steam biomass gasification facility. After extensive gas cleaning the syngas was fed to the methanol generator system. Five different biomass feedstocks, viz. wheat, barley, rice husk, food waste and date pits were used for the analysis. Among all the feedstocks, date pits yielded the highest amounts of hydrogen (52.52%) and carbon monoxide (34.29%). It was observed that the methanol yield for date pits was the highest (0.82 kg/kg of biomass).

Keywords biomass gasification, methanol, syngas, renewable energy resources, Aspen Plus