Hydrogen production by biomass gasification in supercritical water: A systematic experimental and analytical study

Abstract Hydrogen production from biomass gasification in supercritical water is a new technology, which was developed in last two decades. Biomass energy of low quality can be converted to hydrogen energy of high quality by supercritical water gasification. Particularly, supercritical water gasification is an elegant way of wet biomass utilization. Up to now, many important progresses have been made in supercritical water gasification technology by the studies of researchers around the world. Since 1997, supercritical water gasification, which include reaction system, rule of biomass gasification and theory, have been studied in State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering of Xi’an Jiaotong University. In this paper, we summarize the results from systematic experimental and analytical study on biomass gasification in supercritical water in our laboratory. Also, the development status and future prospect on supercritical water gasification is evaluated.

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