Supercritical Water Gasification of Biomass on CSP Plants: Comparison of On-Sun and Off-Sun Designs

Autor: Rafael Pérez-Álvarez, Alireza Rahbari, Armando Fontalvo, Shuang Wang, John Pye
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, Vol 2 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2751-9899
DOI: 10.52825/solarpaces.v2i.951
Popis: A comparative study of On-Sun and Off-Sun designs for supercritical water gasification (SCWG) of biomass on concentrated solar power (CSP) plants was here presented. In the On-Sun design, the tubular reactor was placed on a cavity receiver of a solar power tower (SPT) plant and the heat employed to produce the gasification came directly from the sun (viz. the solar radiation was concentrated, thanks to the heliostat field, onto the tube's surface). In the Off-Sun designs, the gasification of the biomass was carried out inside a heat exchanger and it was produced thanks to the heat absorbed from the hottest fluid, which can be obtained from CSP plants or electrical heating. This work numerically investigated the thermomechanical performance of both designs. The results stood out the relation between temperature-gas yield-thermal stress. In On-Sun configurations the gas yield was 5 times higher than those obtained in the Off-Sun configuration. However, the highest values of both temperature and stress may produce the failure of the reactor. This fact could be avoided in an Off-Sun reactor, since its uniform heating conditions mitigate the maximum temperature and stresses.
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