Experimental Assessment, Model Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification of a Pilot-Scale Gasifier

Abstract

This contribution presents a new set of petroleum coke dry gasification tests performed on pilot-scale gasifier. Dry gas composition and flow rate, temperature distribution, conversion, and pollutant formation taken from the experimental tests and respective calculations were used to validate the prediction capabilities of a reduced order model (ROM) developed for the same gasifier. The ROM predicted the experimental observations for conversion in the range of 48–90%. This study confirms that a systematically developed ROM (with a fixed framework) can predict the behavior of a gasifier under different operating conditions with reasonable accuracy. Moreover, this study investigates the variability in the ROM’s key outputs in the presence of uncertainty in the feed and model parameters, i.e., the volatile percentage of the fuel, solid particle diameters, angle of multiphase flow jet, and recirculation ratio. These parameters affect the feedstock’s properties and the mixing/laminar flows within different zon...