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Analysis of energetic and exergetic efficiency, and environmental benefits of biomass integrated gasification combined cycle technology:

26 Feb 2013-Waste Management & Research (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 31, Iss: 4, pp 401-412
TL;DR: The results of simulations indicate a high technical and environmental interest in the use of biomass integrated gasification combined cycle (BioIGCC) systems for large-scale power generation from biomass waste.
About: This article is published in Waste Management & Research.The article was published on 2013-02-26. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Integrated gasification combined cycle & Combined cycle.
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TL;DR: In this article, a life cycle assessment (LCA) of eight biomass integrated gasification combined cycle (BIGCC) systems with different technology options has been performed to date, which examines technical alternatives of biomass gasification, syngas combustion, and CO2 emission control.

60 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided a comparative analysis of eight BIGCC system designs that include the technology options of the biomass gasification, the power generation, and the CO2 emission control.

57 citations

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TL;DR: Exergy analysis indicates that the gas turbine with external combustion has relatively high exergy efficiency, and Selexol CO2 removal method has low exergy destruction, and sensitivity analysis shows that the systemExergy efficiency is more sensitive to the initial temperature and pressure ratio of the gas turbines, whereas has a relatively weak dependence on theInitial temperature and initial pressure of the steam turbine.

44 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the energy efficiency of an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant based on chemical-looping combustion of synthesis gas is analyzed, and the energy saved in carbon capture and storage is found to be significant and even notable, inducing an improvement of the overall power plant thermal efficiency.

32 citations

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TL;DR: An semi-industrial scale UHT rotary kiln gasifier was employed for the gasification of PFSS (at 17% moisture content), collected from a municipal wastewater treatment plant, with minimal differences, with respect to syngas yield.

9 citations

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  • ...Furthermore, gasification allows the possibility of including a pre-combustion CO2 capture module, reducing GHG emissions even more, and attaining a significantly lower decrease of the overall plant energetic efficiency than that due to post-combustion capture (Rubin et al., 2007)....

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  • ...Furthermore, gasification allows the possibility of including a pre-combustion CO2 capture module, reducing GHG emissions even more, and attaining a significantly lower decrease of the overall plant energetic efficiency than that due to post-combustion capture (Rubin et al., 2007)....

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  • ...This figures are below the range of 12–25 €·(tCO2)−1 for carbon capture and storage cost given by Abadie and Chamorro (2008), and Newell et al. (2006)....

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"Analysis of energetic and exergetic..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Co-gasification of coal and biomass is already being used in some IGCC power plants, such as WillemAlexander at Buggenum (the Netherlands), where significant biomass shares—up to 18%—have been tested with success (Fermoso et al., 2009)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the use of biomass syngas, obtained from pyrolysis or gasification, in traditional energy-production systems, specifically internal combustion (IC) engines and combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants, was investigated.

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