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Microwave Converter for High-Quality Fuel Production Applying Biochar-Combustion Gas

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It has been conducted to develop a microwave converter for producing high-quality gas fuel by carbon-CO2 gasifying using the carbon in biomass carbide and the CO2 in combustion exhaust gas, and obtained the following results. When gasification gas was applied as a simulated combustion gas, CO2 conversion, lower heating value, and H2/CO ratio all increased as the concentrations of each component such as the amount of CO2, O2, and water vapor was increased. The same trend was also observed when the Ni-SiC portion among biochar and gasification gas temperature were high. It was found that there is a good fuel value with CO2 conversion of 56% and lower heating value of 2.6 MJ/Nm3 when the percentage of CO2: N2: O2 is 20:70:10 and the amount of water vapor is 15 mL/min by simulating gasification gas as the combustion gas, and biomass carbide is used as the percentage of Ni-SiC among biochar of 70:30 in order to increase microwave receptive energy.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2018R1D1A1B07040326).

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Chun, Y.N., An, J. Microwave Converter for High-Quality Fuel Production Applying Biochar-Combustion Gas. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 25, 3395–3403 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-023-01764-y

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