TY  - JOUR
AV  - none
N1  - cited By 10
N2  - Due to the environmental and price issues of current energy crisis, scientists and technologists around the globe are intensively searching for new environmentally less-impact form of clean energy that will reduce the high dependency on fossil fuel. Particularly hydrogen can be produced from biomass via thermochemical processes including pyrolysis and gasification due to the economic advantage and can be further enhanced through in-situ carbon dioxide removal using calcium oxide. This work focuses on the synthesis and development of the flowsheet for the enhanced biomass gasification process in PETRONAS's iCON process simulation software. This hydrogen prediction model is conducted at operating temperature between 600 to 1000°C at atmospheric pressure. Effects of temperature, steam-to-biomass ratio and adsorbent-to-biomass ratio were studied and 0.85 mol fraction of hydrogen is predicted in the product gas. Comparisons of the results are also made with experimental data from literature. The preliminary economic potential of developed system is RM 12.57 � 10 6 which equivalent to USD 3.77 � 10 6 annually shows economic viability of this process.
KW  - Biomass Gasification; Biomass ratio; Calcium oxide; Carbon dioxide removal; Clean energy; Current energy; Economic advantages; Economic potentials; Economic viability; Effects of temperature; Experimental data; Flowsheet; iCON; In-situ; Mol fraction; Operating temperature; PETRONAS; Prediction model; Process simulation software; Product gas; Pyrolysis and gasification; Thermo chemical process; Work Focus
KW  -  Atmospheric pressure; Biomass; Carbon dioxide; Computer software; Energy policy; Fossil fuels; Gas adsorption; Hydrogen production; Mathematical models; Pyrolysis; Temperature; Gasification; Hydrogen
KW  -  Gasification; Biomass
TI  - Simulation of enhanced biomass gasification for hydrogen production using iCON
SP  - 661
ID  - scholars1299
Y1  - 2010///
SN  - 2010376X
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651564614&partnerID=40&md5=cd3db8f6ace2789752e1c376edbd6dfd
JF  - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
A1  - Yunus, M.K.
A1  - Ahmad, M.M.
A1  - Inayat, A.
A1  - Yusup, S.
VL  - 62
EP  - 667
ER  -