Advanced biomass conversion using supercritical water

该项目的目的是促进开发加拿大先进的技术，使其能够在国际市场上竞争，从生物量生产氢，这是一种可再生的和温室气体中性的能源和化学品。所提出的方法是原始的，新颖的，并包含几个独特的功能，如使用快速和湍流流化床在超临界水（SCW），下行床热交换器的热量回收从SCW气化炉（SCWG），和催化剂再生SCWG。为了开发这些新组件，申请人将探索几个完全未探索的领域，其中SCW中的快速和湍流床是最重要的。因此，它可能会打开一个前沿工程科学的启动研究的一个新领域的高速超临界水流化床，可以促进许多其他的合成反应和有毒废物的补救过程。

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.