RESEARCH ARTICLE


Comprehensive Simulator Applied to Fluidized Bed Coal Gasification



Marcio L. de Souza-Santos*
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy, CP 6122, Campinas, 13083-970 SP, Brazil


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© 2010 Marcio L. de Souza-Santos

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* Address correspondence to these authors at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy, CP 6122, Campinas, 13083-970 SP, Brazil; Tel: +55-19-35213278; Fax: +55-19-32893722; E-mail: dss@fem.unicamp.br, or dss@csfmb.com
* Address correspondence to these authors at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy, CP 6122, Campinas, 13083-970 SP, Brazil; Tel: +55-19-35213278; Fax: +55-19-32893722; E-mail: Email: dss@fem.unicamp.br , or Email: dss@csfmb.com


Abstract

A comprehensive simulator of fluidized bed equipment (CSFMB) has been able to reproduce experimental tests of bituminous coal gasification. The tests employed a bubbling fluidized bed pilot operating at atmospheric pressure and mixtures of air and steam were injected as gasification agents. Relatively low deviations between experimental and simulation results have been achieved. The simulator can now be applied on optimized scaling up of that equipment operating at any pressure. It also opens the possibility of integrating CSFMB as a module of wider simulations aiming optimizations of CIG/GT (Coal Integrated Gasification/Gas Turbine process) and Fisher-Tropsch.

Keywords: CSFMB, fluidized bed, coal, gasification.