Method and Device of Pyrolytic Processing of Pulp and Paper Industry’ Waste into High-Quality Synthesis Gas

Abstract

Paper presents the results of the experimental investigations of the pulp and paper industry’ wood waste processing method into high-quality synthesis gas. The main characteristics of feedstock (moisture and ash content, elemental composition, higher and lower heating values, volatile matter and fixed carbon content) and synthesis gas (yield, chemical composition, heating value and tar content) in dependence of the processing parameters are described. Processing is carried out by the two-stage pyrolytic conversion method, combining pyrolysis and subsequent high-temperature cracking of volatiles in the charcoal fixed bed. The principal scheme and results of the thermotechnical characteristics calculation of the pilot plant capacity of 300 kg/h of raw material (mechanical mixture of wood chips and bark with a moisture content of 48 %) are presented. The obtained results confirm the high efficiency of the method as applied to the processing of this type of waste.