BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENT DESIGN FOR DEVELOPING CO-PYROLYSIS AND CO-GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES

摘要

Important technical issues must be resolved before co-pyrolysis and co-gasification technologies can be offered as commercially viable processes. Clearly, issues such as solids handling and solids injection require solutions developed at actual plant or pilot scale. However, research on numerous other residual problems can be carried out effectively, rapidly, and inexpensively at bench-scale level. This article describes several cases where problems encountered during pilot or plant scale operation can be studied by experiments at bench-top level; the designs of the bench-scale reactors used in these studies are presented and discussed.