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EUBCE 2024 - Robin MOCHEL - Catalytic Supercritical Water Gasification of Sugar Beet Vinasse

Catalytic Supercritical Water Gasification of Sugar Beet Vinasse

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Hydrothermal processing

Supercritical water gasification and oxidation

Catalytic Supercritical Water Gasification of Sugar Beet Vinasse

Short Introductive summary

Sugar beet vinasse has an important carbon content, which can be recovered by hydrothermal processing. In this comparative study, SCWG of sugar beet vinasse was performed both with and without nickel based catalyst utilization in batch reactor. Catalytic SCWG allow producing CH4 rich syngas at relatively mild conditions. Highest catalyst loading led to the higher CH4 yields with 11.02 mol/kg of dry vinasse and 8.02 mol/kg H2 yield. The influence of feedstock composition and catalyst addition were discussed, leading to a better understanding on the phenomena that occur in the reactor and the resulting gas yields.

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Robin MOCHEL

CEA

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French PhD student, currently in second year. I oriented my studies towards biomass valorization, energy production and catalysis. I want my work to contrubute to the reduction of fossil fuel consumption, notably by using Supercritical water gasification, which is what I'm specialized in.

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Co-authors:

R. Mochel, CEA, Grenoble, FRANCE
H. Demey Cedeno, CEA, Grenoble, FRANCE
A. Chappaz, CEA, Grenoble, FRANCE
L. Vilcocq, CNRS, Lyon, FRANCE
P. Fongarland, CNRS, Lyon, FRANCE

Session reference: 5CO.13.3