Short Description
The temperature swing adsorption is a plant that further cleans precleaned product gas from the 1 MW dual fluidised bed steam gasifier. This plant can clean around 5 m3/h of product gas. The aim of this cleaning approach is to replace the cold RME scrubbing currently used and to separate light tars from the gas stream. Initial tests have also shown good separation of sulphur components from the gas. After this plant, the gas will either be stored in gas cylinders or used directly in subsequent synthesis processes.
The design of the TSA is based on two adsorber apparatuses, which are filled with activated carbon and operated alternately. One vessel adsorbs while the other desorbs.
Contact Person
Katharina Fürsatz
Research Services
- Testing various activated carbons for the cleaning of product gas
- Storage of cleaned product gas for later analyses and syntheses
- Scientific and technical support for plant operation
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
Operation of temperature swing adsorption and scientific support for research into a wide range of issues: Suitability of certain activated carbons, reachable cleaning efficiencies, possible adsorption times and associated regeneration times, long-term test to investigate the cycle stability of the activated carbon