Model Development of Tar Cracking For Biomass Steam Gasification For Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen production from biomass gasification has become an alternative source of energy replacing combustion of fossil fuels. However, biomass steam gasification not only produces useful products but unwanted products such as tar that will affect the efficiency of the gasification utility. Therefore, various methods to eliminate tar into other useful products have been carried out. This research project focuses on the development of kinetic reaction model of tar cracking based on steam gasification by using simulation software such as MATLAB and to calculate the reaction constant of tar cracking via optimization approach.