If you can gasify the biomass then you can potentially send the gas as a fuel to a gas turbine and the exhaust heat from the gas turbine can be used to generate steam for a steam turbine. This is known as a combined cycle. The overall thermodynamic efficiency (or percent of the energy that is converted to electricity) rises by about 50% give or take depending on the process and equipment etc. At 02:02 PM 1/31/01 +0100, you wrote: >Dear all, > >I have been following your discussion for a while and there is one thing >I can hardly understand. Some of you want to gasify biomass to burn the >gas for heat generation for a steam cycle. I can't see the advantage >compared to biomass combustion. So, why do you want to gasify the >biomass previously? > >Regards >Martin Adorni >The Gasification List is sponsored by >USDOE BioPower Program http://www.eren.doe.gov/biopower/ >and PRM Energy Systems http://www.prmenergy.com > >Other Sponsors, Archives and Information >http://www.nrel.gov/bioam/ >http://www.crest.org/renewables/gasification-list-archive >http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/gasref.shtml >http://www.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/ >http://www.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/carbon.shtml The Gasification List is sponsored by USDOE BioPower Program http://www.eren.doe.gov/biopower/ and PRM Energy Systems http://www.prmenergy.com Other Sponsors, Archives and Information http://www.nrel.gov/bioam/ http://www.crest.org/renewables/gasification-list-archive http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/gasref.shtml http://www.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/ http://www.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/carbon.shtml
