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Synthesis Gas Production with Gasification Technology from Municipal Solid Waste

Anotai Srimalanon, Pongsakorn Kachapongkun

Abstract


This study aims to develop, test performance, and evaluate the environmental pollution of garbage fuel with gasification technology. Heat conduction from municipal solid waste (MSW) burning from the gasification process was studied to dispose of solid waste and produce energy for communities. There were four types of solid waste in the total amount of 5 kg (including 0.5 kg of charcoal and firewood, 1.5 kg of paper, 2.0 kg of leaf litter, 0.5 kg of plastic, and 0.5 kg of others) with 2 tested ranges of average humidity: 10–20% and 50–55%. It was found that all waste could be converted for gas production with different gas amounts. From the experiment, dried MSW with 10–15% moisture content produced synthesis gas compositions (mole percent) that were H2, CO2, N2, O2, and CH4 at 1.9–2.4, 1.8–3.2, 56.5–60.2, 3.4–4.6, and 1.2–1.6, respectively. When fuel gas composition at the equivalent ratio between 0.2–0.34 was obtained from the MSW burning test with 10–15% average humidity, MSW burning in various equivalent ratios resulted in different amounts of synthesis gas. In addition, the optimal amounts of CH4 and the heating value of the gas were in the equivalent ratio of 0.28, and the highest production efficiency of synthetic gas (ηg) was 33.46%.

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DOI: 10.14416/j.asep.2023.01.002

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