RESEARCH ARTICLE
Comprehensive Simulator Applied to Fluidized Bed Coal Gasification
Marcio L. de Souza-Santos*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 4
First Page: 68
Last Page: 79
Publisher ID: TOCENGJ-4-68
DOI: 10.2174/1874123101004010068
Article History:
Received Date: 31/06/2010Revision Received Date: 03/09/2010
Acceptance Date: 06/09/2010
Electronic publication date: 21/10/2010
Collection year: 2010
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Abstract
A comprehensive simulator of fluidized bed equipment (CSFMB) has been able to reproduce experimental tests of bituminous coal gasification. The tests employed a bubbling fluidized bed pilot operating at atmospheric pressure and mixtures of air and steam were injected as gasification agents. Relatively low deviations between experimental and simulation results have been achieved. The simulator can now be applied on optimized scaling up of that equipment operating at any pressure. It also opens the possibility of integrating CSFMB as a module of wider simulations aiming optimizations of CIG/GT (Coal Integrated Gasification/Gas Turbine process) and Fisher-Tropsch.