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Simulation of the Catalytic Gasification of Banana Biomass in the Production of Hydrogen, Using Glucose as a Model Compound

Version 1 : Received: 8 August 2023 / Approved: 9 August 2023 / Online: 9 August 2023 (10:20:52 CEST)

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Gaona-Cumbicos, J.; Naula-Duchi, K.; Álvarez-Lloret, P.; Mejía-Galarza, W.; Bernal-Pesántez, B.; Jara-Cobos, L. Simulation of the Catalytic Gasification of Banana Biomass in the Production of Hydrogen, Using Glucose as a Model Compound. Catalysts 2023, 13, 1323. Gaona-Cumbicos, J.; Naula-Duchi, K.; Álvarez-Lloret, P.; Mejía-Galarza, W.; Bernal-Pesántez, B.; Jara-Cobos, L. Simulation of the Catalytic Gasification of Banana Biomass in the Production of Hydrogen, Using Glucose as a Model Compound. Catalysts 2023, 13, 1323.

Abstract

Given the problem of climate change caused by fossil fuels, there is a need to seek efficient alternative energies that have a lower impact on the environment and are obtained from renewable resources. Biomass gasification technology is attracting constant interest in sustainable energy research as an alternative to traditional combustion technology. Its numerous advantages include the availability of raw materials, reduction in harmful emission streams, performance, and costs. In gasification, thermochemical conversion of the raw material is carried out, obtaining a gaseous product of great interest known as synthesis gas. As this is a growing topic within the global energy framework, it is necessary to achieve the maturity of this technology by working on its weaknesses, mainly in terms of efficiency. The objective of this project was to study the hydrogen production process from the simulation of glucose gasification as a biomass model compound through a static model and a dynamic model, in order to determine the maximum concentration of the resulting components in each model studied. Since glucose is the most abundant component in biomass, it was used as a composite model, these models were built, and the basis for the adaptability of subsequent studies of optimization present one was laid. A H_2:CO ratio of 2.2 and molar fluxes were obtained for H_2,〖CO,CO〗_(2,) 〖CH〗_4 and H_2 O as would generally occur in an organic matter gasification process.

Keywords

simulation, hydrogen, Ansys, Phyton, kinetics.

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science

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