Vegetable Oil as a Solvent for Removing Producer Gas Tar Compounds

Prakashbhai R. Bhoi; Raymond L. Huhnke; Ajay Kumar; Mark E. Payton; Krushna N. Patil; James R. Whiteley

doi:10.1016/j.fuproc.2014.12.046

Vegetable Oil as a Solvent for Removing Producer Gas Tar Compounds

Prakashbhai R. Bhoi, Raymond L. Huhnke, Ajay Kumar, Mark E. Payton, Krushna N. Patil, James R. Whiteley

Mechanical Engineering

Oklahoma State University

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of vegetable oil as a solvent in a wet packed bed scrubbing system for removing model producer gas tar compounds. Solvent type, column bed height, solvent temperature and solvent flow rate were varied to assess the performance in terms of tar removal efficiency. Soybean and canola oils were used as solvents. Benzene, toluene and ethylbenzene were used as model tar compounds. Testing was conducted using a bench scale packed bed column, 5.25 cm diameter by 1.1 m height, filled with 6-mm raschig rings as packing material. Statistical analysis showed that soybean and canola oils provide comparable removal efficiencies of tar compounds. The analysis also revealed that bed height and solvent temperature had highly significant effects on tar removal efficiencies. Bed height, solvent temperature and solvent flow rate had highly significant effects on liquid holdup and pressure drop across the column.

Original language	American English
Journal	Fuel Processing Technology
Volume	133
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2014.12.046
State	Published - May 2015

Keywords

Canola oil
Producer gas tars
Raschig rings
Soybean oil
Wet scrubbing system

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