Advanced biomass conversion using supercritical water

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This project aims at contributing to the development of an advanced Canadian technology that could compete in the international market for production of hydrogen from biomass, a renewable and greenhouse gas neutral source of energy and chemicals. The proposed process is original, novel and contains several unique features like use of fast & turbulent fluidized beds in supercritical water (SCW), downer bed heat exchanger for heat recovery from SCW gasifier (SCWG), and catalyst regeneration in SCWG. To develop these novel components, the applicant will explore several totally unexplored areas, amongst which fast & turbulent bed in SCW are most important. It may thus open a frontier in engineering science by kick-starting research in a new area of high velocity supercritical water fluidized beds that could facilitate many other synthesis reactions and toxic waste remediation processes.