Production of Hydrogen by Gasification of Refuse Plastic Fuel and Low Level Coal

Abstract

Gasification process is one of the several technologies for converting wastes into energy resources and reducing the volume of solid wastes to be landfills.Gasification involves a partial combustion of solid waste (Refuse Plastic Fuel and Coal) to generate a combustion fuel gas mixture consisting of H₂, CH₄ and CO gas by using Refuse Plastic Fuel and Coal. The RPF obtained from municipal solid waste (MSW) material is an organic material for further processing. The RPF used consisted of approximately 60% plastic and some other waste material with moisture.Gasification of RPF and coal was carried out at 700°C with water (5 ml/min) and carrier gas (Argon) at a flow rate of 0.5 L/min. Amount of steam, reaction temperature and mixing ratio of RPF and Coal (Bitumous coal and Authcite) were considered as variable parameters for this experiment.In this study, experimental conditions were optimized to maximize the production of hydrogen gas from gasification process conducted on a lab-scale reactor. Gas chromatography. was used for analysis of gas mixture.