Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Time: 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
Session code 5CO.10
Production of biochar
Comparison of The Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) of Sewage Sludge to its Pyrolysis
Short Introductive summary
The fundamental differences between thermocatalytic reforming (TCR®) and its legacy process, pyrolysis, have been demonstrated in this work using sewage sludge. A lab-scale TCR® plant has been used to carry out all the experiments. Three pyrolysis experiments and two TCR® experiments are carried out to demonstrate the difference. The results show increase in temperature leads to increase in gas yield and decrease in char yield in either process. Interestingly, it is also observed that the hydrogen fraction of the gas from the TCR® is much higher than what is obtained from pyrolysis. Therefore, the TCR® is an economically important upgrade on traditional pyrolysis as a tool for the thermochemical conversion of biomass into biofuels.
Presenter
Hillary Onyebuchi ONYISHI
Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Renewable Energy Dpt.
Presenter's biography
Hillary Onyishi studied mechanical engineering at UNN (B.Eng) and at UCL (MSc.). Currently, he is a doctoral student at the Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg. He carries out research at the Fraunhofer UMSICHT, with a focus on the thermochemical conversion of biomass into biofuels.
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Co-authors:
A. Fox, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY
J Pech, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY
J Neidel, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY
R Daschner, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY
A Apfelbacher, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY
A Hornung, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY
Session reference: 5CO.10.2