Effect of bed height on the performance oa a biomass fixed-bed gasifier

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Biomass gasification is considered to be one of the most promising energy recovery technologies for the widespread utilization of biomass. Mathematical models have been developed to understand the gasification process inside gasifiers. As the oldest type of gasifier, fixed-bed gasifiers have been widely studied by using zero-dimensional and one-dimensional models; however, only a limited number of two-dimensional models for this type of reactor can be found in existing literature.The primary goal of this thesis is to develop a two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (2-D CFD) model for fixed-bed gasifiers that considers the complex kinetic mechanisms, the flow field, and a series of chemical reactions inside gasifiers. The model was evaluated for both downdraft and updraft fixed-bed gasifiers through comparison with existing data from a demonstration-scale high temperature agent gasification (HTAG) system. The results demonstrated that this model can reasonably predict the perform

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