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Low-Temperature Catalytic Cracking of Biomass Gasification Tar Over Ni/HZSM-5

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Tar is a major bottleneck for advancing biomass gasification in industrial applications, and therefore it is necessary to develop a clean and efficient tar elimination technology. Experiments of ex-situ real tar catalytic cracking to produce syngas under low temperature condition were proposed in this study with Ni supported by HZSM-5 as catalyst. The effects of various reaction conditions on catalytic performance were investigated, and the mechanisms of tar cracking and coke formation were also discussed by XRD, ICP-MS and BET analysis. Results showed that tar conversion and heat value of gaseous products were 91.52 wt% and 6.40 MJ/Nm3, respectively, when temperature was 500 °C, WHSV was 0.65 h−1 and Ni loading content was 6 wt%. However, coking rate of catalyst was higher than 19.20 wt%. HZSM-5 supported Ni exhibited remarkable tar cracking ability and it could also improve heating value of gaseous products, but coke deactivation of catalyst should be further investigated.

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This work is financially supported by project in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program (2015BAD21B06) and the project in the Natural Science Foundation of China (51676138).

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  1. School of Science, Tibet University, No. 36 Jiangsu Street, Lhasa, 850012, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

    Guanyi Chen

  2. School of Environmental Science and Engineering/State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Guanyi Chen, Jian Li, Cong Liu, Beibei Yan, Zhanjun Cheng, Wenchao Ma, Jingang Yao & Huan Zhang

  3. Tianjin Engineering Centre of Biomass-derived Gas and Oil/Key Laboratory of Biomass-based Oil and Gas (China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation), Tianjin, 300072, China

    Guanyi Chen, Zhanjun Cheng & Wenchao Ma

  4. Architectural Design Research Institute of Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Cong Liu

  5. Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Low and Medium Grade Energy (Tianjin University), Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Beibei Yan

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Chen, G., Li, J., Liu, C. et al. Low-Temperature Catalytic Cracking of Biomass Gasification Tar Over Ni/HZSM-5. Waste Biomass Valor 10, 1013–1020 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-017-0107-7

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