Advanced biomass conversion using supercritical water

这个项目的目的是促进发展一种先进的加拿大技术，这种技术可以在国际市场上竞争从生物质中生产氢气，生物质是一种可再生和温室气体中性的能源和化学品来源。所提出的工艺是原创的，新颖的，包含几个独特的功能，如在超临界水（SCW）中使用快速和湍流流化床，从SCW气化炉（SCWG）中回收热量的下床热交换器，以及SCWG中的催化剂再生。为了开发这些新组件，申请人将探索几个完全未开发的领域，其中最重要的是苏海的快速和湍流床。因此，它可以通过启动高速超临界水流化床的新领域的研究，从而开辟工程科学的前沿，这可以促进许多其他合成反应和有毒废物的修复过程。

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.