Investigation of co-gasification of rubber seed shell and high density polyethylene mixtures

• Main Authors: Chin, B.L.F., Yusup, S., Al Shoaibi, A., Kannan, P., Srinivasakannan, C., Sulaiman, S.A.
• Format: Article
• Published: Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC 2014
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908092543&doi=10.3303%2fCET1439085&partnerID=40&md5=3ad8589f5028648fdd6974ed4a0a37fe; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/32040/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

In this study, the steam gasification of rubber seed shell and high density polyethylene mixtures were carried out in a thermogravimetric instrument coupled with mass spectrometer (TGA-MS) in argon atmosphere under non-isothermal condition to analyse the effect of the gas composition such as H2, CO, CO2, and CH4 when using different percentage of high density polyethylene of 0-40 weight in the mixtures and operating temperature of 700 -900 °C. The argon gas was supplied at a flowrate of 100 μL min-1 and the steam was generated from superheater at 110 °C whilst injected at flowrate of 3,000 μL h-1 into the TGA-MS system. The highest H2 and CO concentrations can be achieved at 56 and 29 vol in this system at a temperature of 900 C. Copyright © 2014, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.