A review on municipal solid waste-to-energy trends in the USA

C Mukherjee, J Denney, EG Mbonimpa… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review on current US municipal solid waste-to-energy trends highlighted regional
contrasts on technology adoption, unique challenges of each technology, commonly used …

Reduction of tar generated during biomass gasification: A review

MLV Rios, AM González, EES Lora… - Biomass and bioenergy, 2018 - Elsevier
One of the main problems that happen during biomass gasification is tar formation, which
could make this technology unsuccessfully from a commercial point of view. Tar content …

[HTML][HTML] Oil palm biomass in Indonesia: Thermochemical upgrading and its utilization

R Nabila, W Hidayat, A Haryanto, U Hasanudin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Indonesia is the world's largest palm oil producing country. The oil palm industry (plantation
and milling) generates large amounts of solid waste in the form of empty fruit bunches (EFB) …

Development of biochar-based nanocatalysts for tar cracking/reforming during biomass pyrolysis and gasification

F Guo, X Jia, S Liang, N Zhou, P Chen, R Ruan - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Gasification and pyrolysis have been considered as potential routes for the production of
fuel gas from abundant, low-cost and renewable biomass materials. Tar is the undesirable …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in tar removal by char and the applications: A comprehensive analysis

X Zeng, Y Ueki, R Yoshiie, I Naruse, F Wang… - Carbon Resources …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tar catalytic removal by char is a promising technology for gasification process because of
its porous structure, good catalytic activity, low cost, and easy to treatment after deactivation …

Hydrogen-rich syngas production from palm kernel shells (PKS) biomass on a downdraft allothermal gasifier using steam as a gasifying agent

J Barco-Burgos, J Carles-Bruno, U Eicker… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the steam gasification of palm kernel shells (PKS) for
hydrogen-rich N 2-free syngas production in a pilot-scale atmospheric downdraft allothermal …

Characterization of biochar and byproducts from slow pyrolysis of hinoki cypress

S Yu, J Park, M Kim, C Ryu, J Park - Bioresource Technology Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
As a carbonaceous microporous solid, biochar, a product of biomass pyrolysis, has various
energy, environmental, and agricultural applications. This study investigated slow pyrolysis …

The use of gasification solid products as catalysts for tar reforming

DA Buentello-Montoya, X Zhang, J Li - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The presence of tars in syngas is a major technological constraint for upscaling biomass
gasification to produce heat, power, and other value-added chemicals such as biofuels. At …

Adsorption and decomposition of tar model compounds over the surface of gasification char and active carbon within the temperature range 250–800 C

G Ravenni, OH Elhami, J Ahrenfeldt, UB Henriksen… - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The carbonaceous products of gasification or pyrolysis (chars) and active carbon (AC) have
been found effective as adsorbents for tar species and active as catalysts for tar conversion …

[HTML][HTML] Gasification of woody biomass in a novel indirectly heated bubbling fluidized bed steam reformer

C Tsekos, M Del Grosso, W De Jong - Fuel Processing Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Within this work, a novel 50 kW th indirectly heated bubbling fluidized bed steam reformer
(IHBFBSR) is presented, along with its commissioning experiments. In the IHBFBSR, heat is …