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A Review on the Technical and Economic Prospects of Biofuel Production from Integrated Biomass Gasification and Fischer-Tropsch Processes
Author(s)
Arpornwichanop, Amornchai
Date Issued
January 1, 2020
Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Concerns in energy shortage and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions motivate the production of transportation fuel via a combined biomass gasification (BG) and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process. This review explains the basic background of the BG-FT process, including the gasification, gas cleaning, and FT processes. Numerous aspects of this process, such as the influence of the feedstock type and characteristics and the processing conditions, efficient process design, and FT-catalyst performance improvement, are reviewed based on laboratory-scale research reported in the literature. The tar removal process used to produce the synthesis gas satisfying the FT specification is also focused in this review. Moreover, the technical and economic prospects of the current BG-FT process to produce transportation fuels are reviewed and compared. Finally, trends in the future research of the BG-FT process are examined.
Citation
Integration of Clean and Sustainable Energy Resources and Storage in Multi Generation Systems Design Modeling and Robust Optimization, 283-315, 2020