Professional paper

EXPERIMENT OF PEAT GASIFICATION IN PLASMA REACTOR

Marián Lázár ; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University in Košice, Slovakia
Marta Lengyelová ; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University in Košice, Slovakia
Peter Kurilla ; SAFINA, a. s., Plasma Process & Technology, Jesenice, Czech Republic

Abstract

Gasification of solid and low quality fuel from the economic point is not a new idea or a new technology. Industrial
applications for the production of energo gas from coal dates back to the beginning of the nineteenth century, whilst
the construction of several large industrial plants for producing the electricity from coal and heavy oil fractions have
been launched in the United States and Europe in the last 40 years.
The aim of this contribution is to verify the assessment of utilizable synthesis gas at high-temperature thermal
treatment of the selected fuel commodity in terms of the energy recovery system in the cogeneration unit. An
experiment was performed in 80 kVA plasma reactor with a dependent electric arc and hollow graphite electrode
where the nitrogen N2 was used to generate plasma arc.

Keywords

plasma gasification; peat mass; synthesis gas

Hrčak ID:

93551

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/93551

Publication date:

10.12.2012.

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