Simulation Studies of Biomass Gasification System

As the fossil fuels is depleting in this world, renewable energy has become an important source of energy. Biomass gasification is one of the potential technologies that can convert biomass into environmental friendly energy. This technology is the possible method in reducing the emission of CO2 to environment. Palm kernel shell is used as its feedstock because of its ability of producing high production of hydrogen gas. This research paper is to develop a model of biomass gasification system which is located at Block P in University Teknologi PETRONAS. To fulfill this objective, information regarding the operating conditions of the equipment, and process flow diagram of the system need to be gathered. With using Aspen Plus software, a simulation model of biomass gasification is developed in this paper. In this research the temperature and steam to biomass ratio are manipulated to see the effect on gas production.