A critical review on biomass gasification, co-gasification, and their environmental assessments

Gasification is an efficient process to obtain valuable products from biomass with several potential applications, which has received increasing attention over the last decades. Further development of gasification technology requires innovative and economical gasification methods with high efficienc...

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Published inBiofuel research journal Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 483 - 495
Main Authors Farzad, Somayeh, Mandegari, Mohsen Ali, Görgens, Johann F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Saint John Green Wave Publishing of Canada 01.12.2016
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Subjects
Biomass
Biomass gasification
Climate change
Co-gasification
Emissions
Environmental aspects
Environmental assessment
Environmental protection
Fossil fuels
Gasification
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Life cycle analysis
Life cycle assessment
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Life cycles
New technology
Plasma gasification
Renewable resources
Supercritical water gasification
Sustainable use
Sustainable yield
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Summary:Gasification is an efficient process to obtain valuable products from biomass with several potential applications, which has received increasing attention over the last decades. Further development of gasification technology requires innovative and economical gasification methods with high efficiencies. Various conventional mechanisms of biomass gasification as well as new technologies are discussed in this paper. Furthermore, co-gasification of biomass and coal as an efficient method to protect the environment by reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been comparatively discussed. In fact, the increasing attention to renewable resources is driven by the climate change due to GHG emissions caused by the widespread utilization of conventional fossil fuels, while biomass gasification is considered as a potentially sustainable and environmentally-friendly technology. Nevertheless, social and environmental aspects should also be taken into account when designing such facilities, to guarantee the sustainable use of biomass. This paper also reviews the life cycle assessment (LCA) studies conducted on biomass gasification, considering different technologies and various feedstocks.
ISSN:2292-8782
2292-8782
DOI:10.18331/BRJ2016.3.4.3