Design and Development of a Novel Hybrid Gasifier for High Ash Content Coal as feed stock

Priyank Dave; Dr. J. K. Parikh; S. A. Channiwala

doi:10.46565/jreas.202382518-523

Priyank Dave Research Scholar, Mechanical Engineering Department, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
Dr. J. K. Parikh Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, S.V.National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
S. A. Channiwala Ex-Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, S.V.National Institute of Technology, Surat, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46565/jreas.202382518-523

Keywords: Gasification;, High ash coal;, Thermo chemical conversion;, Hybrid gasifier

Abstract

India has large proven reserve of coal but most of the coal has large quantity of ash. Utilization of this high ash content coal is again a very
challenging task. Presently, gasification of high ash coals has not yet been in application due to the difficulties arising from the ash handling
processes. In this work an attempt was made to design a partially fluidized bed reactor that can handle 30 kg/hr coal as a feedstock. By using
an appropriate design procedure a complete design of a hybrid gasifier was studied deeply. The major aim of present research is to
determine the air flow rate for proper gasification, reactor diameter and reactor height, feed particle diameter, nozzle orientation and number
nozzles, reduction zone diameter and height. Experiments were carried out with feeding rate of 9.8 kg/hr with high ash content coal having
39.83% ash. Satisfactory results have been found during experiments. The average producer gas generation during trial run was found to be
29.8 Nm3/hr while average calorific value of producer gas was about 4500 kJ/Nm3. The work described here favours us understand the real
gasification process for high ash content coal and thus facilitates the industrial application of gasification technology.

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