Samenvatting

Plasma gasification has been studied as a new technology which may combine bio-waste treatment and energy generation. Currently, a setup for carrying out gasification experiments has been built up in order to obtain more experimental data for further research. According to previous experimental results, we can see that the gas feeding and feeding material can influence the results of gasification quite obviously. Base on this fact, the gas feeding needs to be adjusted according to verified researching purposes. This project looks into how the gas feeding would influence the gasification results with different feeding materials. Pure lignin and cellulose were used as feeding material, and three groups of experiments were done. The influence of gas feeding condition on gasification result was found in terms of gas composition, carbon conversion and cold gas efficiency. A methodology for optimizing the process is developed based on the experimental results and observations. For experiments which would be carried out later with certain purpose, the result of this research can be helpful to find out the proper gas feeding settings and solve problems when the experimental results are out of expectation.