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Keywords: This paper presents a process modeling and optimization study about steam-gasification of biomass. The gasi
Biomass fication model is developed using Aspen Plus process simulation tool, and rice husk is considered as biomass fuel.
Gasification Simulation results were validated with reported experimental results. The effects of the critical parameters,
Exergy
namely, steam-to-biomass ratio (S/B) and gasification temperature on the quality of the product gas as well as
Cold gas efficiency
Response surface methodology
the gasifier cold-gas efficiency were analyzed. Response surface methodology (RSM) is employed to understand
the synchronized effects of the critical decision parameters and thus to determine the optimized zone of oper
ating condition. The study reveals that steam gasification can yield relatively clean, H2-rich (up to 58%, dry
basis) product gas and the RSM analysis suggests that optimum performance is obtained for gasification tem
perature in the range of 750–900 ◦ C and S/B in the range of 0.70–0.81, when the cold gas efficiency (CGE)
approaches 90% and yields dry gas LHV of 12 MJ/kg and more.
1. Introduction suitable for the gasification of agricultural residues such as rice husk,
straw, stalk etc. utilizing steam as gasification agent.
Keeping scarcity and environmental hazards of fossil fuels in mind, The parameters that affect the performance of gasification are the
researchers are increasingly shifting their attention to renewable energy gasifying agent (air or steam), gasification temperature and the size of
sources. Biomass is considered as one of the most favored forms of the biomass particle [8,9]. Higher gasification temperature and small
renewable sources [1]. Apparent carbon neutrality and worldwide particle size are favourable for the gasification process, as they help to
availability are the most notable characteristic of biomass [2,3]. Major increase in conversion of biomass while reducing the concentration of
types of biomass are primary biomass, collected directly from plantation char.
areas and waste biomass like municipal solid wastes. Energy crops are Advanced simulation and process engineering (ASPEN) can be used
mainly grown for use in energy conversion systems. In both large and to model gasification processes and to estimate the composition of
small scale power generation, biomass can be utilized as a replacement syngas obtained after gasification. Li et al. [10] developed a novel
of fossil fuels [4–6]. tri-generation system taking biomass and solar energy as co-feeds, and
Biomass gasification is a process where biomass undergoes thermal they performed exergy analysis on the system. The effects of
conversion to produce a combustible gas mixture, which contains steam-to-biomass ratio (S/B) and equivalence ratio were investigated,
hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and water and the highest destruction of exergy was found to be in the gasifier.
vapour. In air gasification, solid biomass is combusted partially in the Zhang et al. [11] modeled a biomass partial gasification process. The
presence of air at sub-stoichiometric ratio and the product gas contains authors carried out the exergy and energy analyses of the gasification
substantial amount of N2. In steam gasification, steam is the primary model. The performance of gasification model was investigated
gasifying agent and the product gas is rich in H2 while N2 content is considering different parameters of the system and exponential increase
minimal. Further, steam gasification produces minimal amounts of ox in the product of exergy destruction and time was observed after carbon
ides of sulphur and nitrogen because of the oxygen-deficient condition conversion ratio value of 0.7. Chen et al. [12] modeled a supercritical
and lower gasification temperature [7]. There are different gasifiers water coal gasification system and O2–H2O coal gasification system, and
available in the market. Of them, fluidized bed gasifiers (CFBs) are reported the comparative performances. It was observed that the coal
* Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: skarz1995@gmail.com (S.A. Zaman), dibyenduroy8@gmail.com (D. Roy), sudipghosh.becollege@gmail.com (S. Ghosh).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2020.105847
Received 28 February 2020; Received in revised form 7 September 2020; Accepted 24 October 2020
Available online 17 November 2020
0961-9534/© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Table 4
Comparison of model results with reported experimental data for rice husk [36].
Parameters H2 CO CO2 CH4 RMSE
0
T( C) S/B Model (%) Exp (%) Model (%) Exp (%) Model (%) Exp (%) Model (%) Exp (%)
690 1.32 57.56 50.5 15.42 14.3 26.56 26.6 0.212 8.6 5.51
730 1.32 57.18 52.2 17.01 16.4 25.49 23.5 0.071 7.9 4.75
750 1 55.3 49.5 22.11 23.7 22.25 21.2 0.089 5.6 4.11
750 0.6 51.54 48.8 31.55 27.5 16.33 19.5 0.3 4.2 3.5
750 1.32 56.96 52.3 17.76 17.75 25 22.25 0.04 7.4 4.56
Table 5
Comparison of model results with reported experimental data for almond shells
[37].
Model Exp RMSE
(%) (%)
∑ ∑
Ėin + Ėheat = Ėout + Ėd (4)
∑ ∑
where Ėin , Ėout ,Ėheat and Ėd are exergy rates of the total input, total
output, in the form of rate of heat flow to the gasifier (Q̇in ) and
destruction in the rate of exergy. Ėheat can be calculated from the rate of
heat flow to the gasifier as follows
[ ]
Tatm
Ėheat = 1 − *Q̇in (5) Fig. 3. Effect of gasification temperature on syngas composition(dry basis).
T
Total exergy rate input to the model is in the form of biomass and
steam as shown below
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∑
Ėin = Ėb + Ėsteam (6)
Ėsyngas + Ėchar
ηmodel,ex = (11)
Ėb + Ėsteam + Ėheat
5. Methodology
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Table 6
ANOVA for cold gas efficiency.
Source DF Seq SS Contribution Adj SS Adj MS F-Value P-Value
Table 7
ANOVA for lower heating value.
Source DF Seq SS Contribution Adj SS Adj MS F-Value P-Value
k (
∑ )2
ri,p − rm k (
∑ )2
ri,p − rm
R 2
= i=1k (13) k− 1
∑ R2adj =1− i=1
* (14)
(ri − rm )2 ∑k
2 k− n− 1
i=1 (ri − rm )
i=1
The equation used to estimate the adjusted regression coefficient
Here, k denotes the number of experiments; ri, ri,p and rm are
(R2adj ) is as follows
experimental, predicted and mean values, respectively.
A flowchart for analysis and optimizing strategy is shown in Fig. 2.
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inside which the gasifier was placed. The second comparison has been
Table 8 made with experimental work carried out by Rapagna et al. [37] as
Comparison of the full model and simple model in statistical analysis. shown in Table 5. In their work, a bubbling fluidized bed gasifier was
Simple model Full model used having inner diameter 60 mm and steam was used as fluidizing
R2 (%) R2adj (%) R2(%) R2adj (%)
medium. Almond shells were used as the biomass feed. The comparison
is done for five different sets of gasification temperature and S/B for rice
CGE 97.64 97.17 98.2 96.91 husk, and one set gasification of temperature and S/B for almond shells,
LHV 94.71 93.65 99.8 99.67
as obtained from the literature referred above.
The root mean square error can be estimated using equation (15), as
5.2. Model validation follows
√̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
√∑
A validation step has been performed in order to test the simulation √n
√ [Model − Exp]2
√ i
model. Aspen Plus simulation results have been compared with two RMSE = (15)
different sets of published experimental results obtained from two types n
of biomass feeds having different compositions, as shown in Table 1. The
Where, n is the count of data point sets.
first comparison is made with results reported by Loha et al. [36] as
Nitrogen gas percentage in the syngas is negligible and nitrogen-free
shown in Table 4. In their work, a laboratory-scale fluidized bed gasifier
syngas (dry basis) is considered for validation. Little discrepancies as
was used and superheated steam was supplied, which worked both as a
witnessed in the comparison approve, model accuracy. The small devi
gasifying agent and fluidizing agent. Rice husk was used as biomass and
ation in the results is due to the thermodynamic equilibrium model
heat required for gasification was obtained from an electric furnace,
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which does not take into account time, specific material and equipment gas flow rate have been investigated. Subsequently, RSM is employed to
data. The estimated error is presented in the form of RMS (root – mean – understand the synchronized effects of the critical decision parameters
square) for each set of data as shown in Tables 4 and 5. in order to determine the optimized zone of operating conditions.
Further, an equilibrium model results in almost 100% conversion of Further, the results of the present study are compared with previously
CH4 but it is not feasible for actual gasifiers to reach thermodynamic reported studies.
equilibrium because of the short residence period. Therefore, under-
forecasting of CH4 is quite common in case of equilibrium modeling of
6.1. Sensitivity analysis for the decision variables
fluidized bed gasifiers [36].
Here, the average root mean square errors are found to be 4.486 and
Fig. 3 shows the effect of gasification temperature on the product gas
3.79 respectively.
composition. It is observed that the concentration of CO ascends as the
temperature rises from 650 ◦ C to 900 ◦ C, whereas the percentage of CO2
6. Results and discussion
and CH4 decline with the rise in temperature. The percentage of H2
almost remains unaltered with the variation of temperature. Here the
Two most critical parameters that influence biomass steam gasifi
gasification temperature is varied from 650 ◦ C to 900 ◦ C for S/B = 1 as
cation process and the product gas quality derived from the same are
shown in Fig. 3.
gasification temperature and S/B. Therefore, the effects of these two
Endothermic reactions like Boudouard reaction, water gas reaction
decision parameters on the producer gas composition and the product
and steam methane reaction favour forward reaction with the rise in
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Table 9
Design matrix with Aspen Plus results and RSM predicted values.
Std Order Run Order Pt Type Blocks S/B T (0C) LHV (MJ/kg) CGE (%)
gasification temperature, which results in increase in H2 and CO con However, the concentration of CO falls with the rise in S/B as it favours
centrations and decrease in CO2 concentration. Exothermic reactions the exothermic water gas shift reaction in the forward direction.
like methanation favour backward reaction with the rise in gasification Fig. 6 shows the variation of syngas mass flow rate with S/B. As the
temperature, which results in the decrease of CH4 formation. The other biomass mass flow rate is fixed, an increase in S/B results in a rise in the
probable reason for falling CO2 concentration with the rise in gasifica mass flow rate of syngas. From Fig. 5 it is evident that with the increase
tion temperature is the combined impact of Boudouard reaction and in S/B, concentrations of CO2 and H2 increases whereas the concentra
reversible water gas shift reaction. The formation of H2 is primarily tion of CO falls and the concentration of CH4 remains almost same,
determined by water gas and water gas shift reactions. Low concentra resulting in an increase in molar mass of syngas produced and hence
tion of CH4 in the gas mixture results in almost unaltered concentration mass flow rate.
of H2 with the rise in gasification temperature.
Fig. 4 shows the variation of syngas mass flow rate with gasification 6.2. Analysis of variance
temperature. As gasification temperature is increased, the mass flow rate
of syngas obtained reduces as Fig. 3 shows that with the increase in Table 6 depicts the results from ANOVA for cold gas efficiency as the
gasification temperature the concentration of CO ascends, whereas the response variable.
percentage of CO2 and CH4 reduces, H2 remaining the same, results in a The p-value for the entire model is noticed to be 0 with the corre
decrease in molar mass of the syngas and hence mass flow rate. sponding F-value of 76.20 which demonstrates the significance of the
The effect of S/B from 0.6 to 1.5 on the product gas compositions at a model. Investigation of the importance of individual input process var
gasification temperature of 800 ◦ C is shown in Fig. 5. iables and their exchanges are also done. The p-value of S/B is found to
It is seen that the concentrations of CO2 and H2 increases as S/B be 0 with associated F-value of 372.88 is the most influential variable
enhances whereas concentration CO falls, the concentration of CH4 that influences CGE.
remaining almost the same with the rise in S/B. Increasing S/B aids Fig. 7 represents the Pareto chart for variable influence on CGE. It is
forward reactions such as endothermic water gas and methane steam observed that all the bars do not cross the reference line 2.36, which
reforming reactions. Thus concentrations of H2 and CO increase. implies that all the factors are not statistically significant. The effect of
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Both full model (having factors A, B, AA, AB and BB) and simple
two-way interaction coded AB, and square interaction AA and BB are not
model (containing only factors A and B) were analyzed and it was
significant on the response variable (CGE).
observed that the R2 and R2adj values of the full model are better than that
For gasification temperature, the p-value is 0.04 with corresponding
F-value of 5.95, which is significant as well. The high value of regression of the simple model as shown in Table 8, hence full model has been
coefficient 98.2% is observed which shows the excellent fitting of the presented in this paper.
model with the experimental results. The Radj 2 value of 96.91%, is in
great agreement with R2. 6.4. Effects of decision variables on CGE and LHV
The equation of the final model as a function of coded factors for the
CGE with significant variables formulates the second ordered poly Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 depict the effects of decision variables (S/B and T)
nomial regression model as shown below. on CGE and LHV respectively. As S/B increases, both CGE and LHV
decreases and with the rise in gasification temperature, both CGE and
CGE(%) = 140.9 − 47.4 ∗ S / B − 0.062 ∗ T + 2.94 ∗ S / B * S / B LHV increase.
+ 0.000033 ∗ T ∗ T +0.0201 * S / B * T (16) With increasing S/B, the amount of H2 and CO2 in the syngas in
creases and CO decreases as shown in Fig. 5 resulting decrease in LHV.
Table 7 depicts the results from ANOVA for lower heating value as And as gasification temperature increases, the concentration of CO in
the response variable. creases and CO2 concentration decreases, H2 remaining the same as
The p-value for the entire model is found to be zero having a F-value shown in Fig. 3, results in an increase in LHV. CGE decreases as S/B rises
of 715.93 which shows the importance of the model. S/B has a p-value of due to the decrease in the heating value of syngas. As gasification
zero and F-value of 2601.10 is the most dominating variable that in temperature rises, the heating value of the syngas increases, resulting
fluences LHV. For gasification temperature, the p-value is zero with increase in CGE.
corresponding F-value of 795.75 is also significant. Fig. 8 represents the
Pareto chart for variable influence on LHV. It is observed that all the bars 6.5. Interaction effect of decision parameters
do not cross the reference line 2.36, which implies that all the factors are
not statistically significant. Only the effect of two-way interaction coded The interaction consequence of decision parameters on CGE is shown
AB is not significant on the response variable (LHV). in Fig. 11. CGE is found to be maximum at low S/B and high gasification
The high value of R2 is observed to be 99.8%, which shows the temperature. In this condition, the CGE exceeds 90%. In the meantime,
excellent precision of fitting of the model with the experimental results. the minimum value of CGE is found at a condition of high S/B and low
The R2adj value of 99.67% is in excellent agreement with R2. gasification temperature, less than 60%.
The equation of the final model as a function of coded factors for the The interaction consequence of decision parameters on LHV is shown
in Fig. 12.
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Central composite design (CCD) is applied to screen design variables CRediT authorship contribution statement
based on two-level full factorial design. To find out the optimal opera
tional condition, the combined effect of the parameters is explored. Sk Arafat Zaman: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software,
Table 9 shows the values of cold gas efficiency and LHV values at Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Visualization,
different sets of gasification temperature and S/B. It also compares the Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Dibyendu Roy:
results obtained from response surface methodology and Aspen Plus Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis,
software. Root mean square error for cold gas efficiency and LHV are Investigation, Visualization, Writing - review & editing. Sudip Ghosh:
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Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing - review & editing. Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata for access to their computa
tional facilities and software.
Acknowledgement
Nomenclature
A Ash
Adj MS Adjusted mean squares
Adj SS Adjusted sum of squares
C Carbon
CGE Cold gas efficiency
DECOMP Decomposer
DF Degrees of freedom
Ė Exergy rate, (kW)
H Hydrogen
HHV Higher heating value, (MJ/kg)
Hsteam Enthalpy of steam, (kJ/kg)
H2S SEP H2S separator
LHV Lower heating value, (MJ/kg)
ṁ Mass flow rate, (kg/s)
N Nitrogen
O Oxygen
Q̇ Rate of heat flow, (kW)
S Sulphur
Seq SS Sequential sum of squares
S/B Steam-to-biomass ratio
T Temperature, (◦ C, K)
VM Volatile matter
η Efficiency
ζ Exergy biomass coefficient
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