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Steam co‐gasification of iron‐loaded biochar and low‐rank coal
Author(s) -
Shen Lingbo,
Murakami Kenji
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.3565
Subject(s) - biochar , coal , catalysis , pyrolysis , chemistry , chemical engineering , hydrogen , hydrogen production , waste management , carbide , metallurgy , materials science , organic chemistry , engineering
Summary Steam co‐gasification of iron catalyst‐loaded biochar, which was produced by the pyrolysis of woody biomass and Indonesian Adaro subbituminous coal at 800 °C, was carried out in this study. The main purpose of this work was to examine the effectiveness of an iron catalyst loaded on biochar for hydrogen (H 2 ) evolution. It was shown that the H 2 evolution for a mixed sample of iron‐loaded biochar (20 wt%) and Indonesian Adaro subbituminous coal increased by 20% compared with that for the coal sample with the same amount of iron catalyst and was approximately 1.5 that for the coal sample without the iron catalyst. This increase in the co‐gasification H 2 evolution was explained by the chemical form and crystallite size of the iron catalyst. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.