Pyrolysis of RDF and Catalytic Decomposition of the Produced Tar in a Char Bed Secondary Reactor as an Efficient Source of Syngas

Bogusław Kusz; Dariusz Kardaś; Łukasz Heda; Bartosz Jakub Trawiński

doi:10.3390/pr10010090

Pyrolysis of RDF and Catalytic Decomposition of the Produced Tar in a Char Bed Secondary Reactor as an Efficient Source of Syngas

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One of the technical limitations of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) pyrolysis is the high content of tar in its gas products. In order to resolve this problem, a two-stage RDF pyrolysis with a catalyst based on char from RDF pyrolysis is proposed. This paper presents the results of municipal waste pyrolysis beginning in an oven heated to 480 °C and ending with catalytic tar cracking carried out in the temperature range from 800 to 1000 °C. Thermal and catalytic pyrolysis with a char catalyst containing a minimum of 6% Fe resulted in increases in the CO and H2 contents in gas products and decreases in CO2 and CH4. At 1000 °C, the mass ratio of gaseous products to liquids was greater than 6. The residence time of the gases in the catalytic zone was about 3–5 s. The reactor was a good source of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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Bogusław Kusz prof. dr hab. inż.
Dariusz Kardaś
Łukasz Heda
Bartosz Jakub Trawiński (formerly: Bartosz Trawiński) dr inż.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:: Processes no. 10,
ISSN: 2227-9717
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2022
Bibliographic description:: Kusz B., Kardaś D., Heda Ł., Trawiński B.: Pyrolysis of RDF and Catalytic Decomposition of the Produced Tar in a Char Bed Secondary Reactor as an Efficient Source of Syngas// Processes -Vol. 10,iss. 10 (2022), s.90-
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/pr10010090
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