Numerical Modelling Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Biomass

Abstract

newline The rapidly developing nations around the world feed on the energy sources that provide newlinea steady and progressive path of development. The use and misuse of non replenishable newline newlineenergy sources has paved a way for its extinction over several years. Moreover, the non- newlineextolled harmful effect of environmental degradation and pollution has urged the need for newline newlineeco-friendly energy resources. The search for alternate sources of fuel to replace the fossil newlinefuels dates back to a century. The Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of replenishable sources is newlineidentified to be sustainable and environmentally friendly. In this present era, the world is newlinetrying to achieve sustainability in terms of fuel usage such that renewable energy sources newlineare also balanced with non-renewable ones. Fossil fuels have the potential issues of newlinetransportation and storage. The cost and transportation of solid and liquid fuels have newlinebecome cumbersome; hence better focus has been made on using gaseous fuels that are newlineeasy to store and transport and whose extraction (Natural gas) is not challenging with the newlinelatest technologies like vertical drilling, horizontal drilling, and fracturing. newlineThe need for cleaner energy, conversion of waste to energy, and unique energy newlineconversion routes are the topic of attention among researchers wide across the world due newlineto the harmful concerns of pollution associated with fossil fuel tradition. Consequently, newlineclean and sustainable energy production from biomass has become a relevant one. Energy newlineproduction from biomass is not a unique concept, but its sustainability as a better newlinealternative is always challenging. Among the available thermochemical energy newlineconversion routes, gasification is newer than solid and liquid fuel combustion. newlineGasification encompasses the conversion of solid fuel into a combustible gas (syngas) newlineunder specific temperatures accomplished in a gasifier. Prior to gasification, the solid newlineparticles are fluidized by a gasifying medium. Once the fluid velocity exceeds the newlineminimum fluidization velocity, the solid