Abstract
The most advanced thermochemical technologies that convert biomass into value-added products, combustion (including co-firing with coal), gasification and pyrolysis, generally utilise dry biomass (usually with a moisture content of <20 wt%) as the feedstock. The need to process high-moisture content biomass fuels has led to the development of hydrothermal processing technologies. The term ‘hydrothermal’ originates from the geological domain (Jin and Enomoto 2009). Hydrothermal processing can be broadly defined as a technology that utilises subcritical or supercritical water medium at elevated temperature (typically 200°C-800°C) and pressure (typically 5-30 MPa) (Peterson et al. 2008; Pavlovic et al. 2013).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Biomass processing technologies |
| Editors | Vladimir Strezov, Tim J. Evans |
| Place of Publication | Boca Raton |
| Publisher | CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Pages | 155-176 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781482282603 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781466566163 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- hot-compressed water
- pressure aqueous environments
- supercritical water
- oil production
- bio-oil
- thermochemical liquefaction
- biofuel production
- sodium-sulfate
- carbonization
- gasification