Affiliation:
1. Department of Combustion and Explosion, Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Moscow 119991, Russia
2. Institute for Laser and Plasma Technologies, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
Abstract
The thermodynamic modeling of waste oil (WO) gasification by a high-temperature gasification agent (GA) composed of an ultra-superheated H2O/CO2 mixture is carried out. The GA is assumed to be obtained by the gaseous detonation of fuel–oxidizer–diluent mixture in a pulsed detonation gun (PDG). N-hexadecane is used as a WO surrogate. Methane or the produced syngas (generally a mixture of H2, CO, CH4, CO2, etc.) is used as fuel for the PDG. Oxygen, air, or oxygen-enriched air are used as oxidizers for the PDG. Low-temperature steam is used as a diluent gas. The gasification process is assumed to proceed in a flow-through gasifier at atmospheric pressure. It is shown that the use of the detonation products of the stoichiometric methane–oxygen and methane–air mixtures theoretically leads to the complete conversion of WO into a syngas consisting exclusively of H2 and CO, or into energy gas with high contents of CH4 and C2-C3 hydrocarbons and an LHV of 36.7 (fuel–oxygen mixture) and 13.6 MJ/kg (fuel–air mixture). The use of the detonation products of the stoichiometric mixture of the produced syngas with oxygen or with oxygen-enriched air also allows theoretically achieving the complete conversion of WO into syngas consisting exclusively of H2 and CO. About 33% of the produced syngas mixed with oxygen can be theoretically used for PDG self-feeding, thus making the gasification technology very attractive and cost-effective. To self-feed the PDG with the mixture of the produced syngas with air, it is necessary to increase the backpressure in the gasifier and/or enrich the air with oxygen. The addition of low-temperature steam to the fuel–oxygen mixture in the PDG allows controlling the H2/CO ratio in the produced syngas from 1.3 to 3.4.
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