[HTML][HTML] Progress in CFD simulations of fluidized beds for chemical and energy process engineering

F Alobaid, N Almohammed, MM Farid, J May… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gas-solid fluidized beds have drawn the attention of engineers and researchers as an
effective technology for a large variety of applications, and numerical simulations can play …

Numerical approaches and comprehensive models for gasification process: A review

A Ramos, E Monteiro, A Rouboa - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nowadays, gasification is seen as a worldwide settled technique for sustainably generating
energy from residues. Its final product is a synthetic gas which may be used for several …

Numerical investigation of optimum operating conditions for syngas and hydrogen production from biomass gasification using Aspen Plus

R Tavares, E Monteiro, F Tabet, A Rouboa - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This study is dedicated to present a reliable numerical methodology using Aspen Plus
process simulator capable of performing a sensibility analysis of the downdraft gasification …

Techno-economic analysis of a biomass gasification power plant dealing with forestry residues blends for electricity production in Portugal

J Cardoso, V Silva, D Eusebio - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
In 2017, deadly wildfires flared across central and north of Portugal. Following these events,
the Government released a set of forestry policies promoting the increase of the currently …

Hydrogen production using plasma gasification with steam injection

J Favas, E Monteiro, A Rouboa - international journal of hydrogen energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Plasma gasification is a promising gasification technology intended at providing sustainable
disposal for various wastes. In this work, a process model was developed to simulate the …

Superheated steam injection as primary measure to improve producer gas quality from biomass air gasification in an autothermal pilot-scale gasifier

DT Pio, H Gomes, LAC Tarelho, ACM Vilas-Boas… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This work evaluated the influence of superheated water steam injection in an autothermal 80
kW th pilot-scale bubbling fluidized bed during biomass direct (air) gasification, focusing on …

Parametric studies in the gasification agent and fluidization velocity during oxygen-enriched gasification of biomass in a pilot-scale fluidized bed: Experimental and …

TM Ismail, A Ramos, E Monteiro, M Abd El-Salam… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The need to achieve renewable alternatives for energy production is pressing and new
technologies have been developed. Biomass is a feasible feedstock for thermal conversion …

Assessment of municipal solid wastes gasification in a semi-industrial gasifier using syngas quality indices

ND Couto, VB Silva, E Monteiro, A Rouboa - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work a comprehensive two-dimensional CFD model was used in order to assess the
potential of syngas produced from gasification of Portuguese MSW (municipal solid waste) …

Thermodynamic Evaluation of Portuguese municipal solid waste gasification

ND Couto, VB Silva, A Rouboa - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
Through a massive population growth, waste management has become one of the main
concerns of our time. In Portugal the growing volume of municipal solid waste has become a …

Techno-economic analysis of forest biomass blends gasification for small-scale power production facilities in the Azores

JS Cardoso, V Silva, D Eusébio, IL Azevedo… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
The present work assesses the energetic valorisation of forest biomass blends in the
archipelago of the Azores, to do so, a multiphase 2-D Eulerian-Eulerian model was …