Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 154, Issue -, Pages 1025-1034Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.108
Keywords
Biomass gasification; Electrolysis; Methanol; Process modeling; Aspen plus; Energy storage
Funding
- Innovationsfonden [4106-00006B]
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Chemical energy storage in the form of hydrogen is playing an important role in the synthesis of alternative energy carriers such as Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG), Methanol and Dimethyl ether (DME) supplementing with a carbon source. The only renewable carbon source is biomass, which is a limited resource. However, the addition of hydrogen could potentially extend the existing biomass resources. This paper describes the modeling of a novel combined Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC) and oxygen blown biomass gasification system using Aspen Plus. One of the advantages of using such a combined system is the use of oxygen for gasification and reforming. The comparison of reforming technologies showed that an autothermal reformer (ATR) could be an advantage since oxygen is already available from the electrolysis stack and the ATR produced syngas has a higher CO/CO2 ratio, which increases the methanol synthesis's reaction rate. ATR requires much less energy similar to 13 MW for almost complete methane conversion compared to similar to 35 MW for Steam Reforming (SR). The advantage of using inter-cooled compression upstream or downstream for such a combined process has been explained. A methanol thermal conversion efficiency of 72.08% can be achieved for gasification and SOEC combined system compared to 55.7% for an only gasifier system. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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