title: The conversion of anaerobic digestion waste into biofuels via a novel Thermo-Catalytic Reforming process.
abstract: Producing energy from biomass and other organic waste residues is essential for sustainable development. Fraunhofer UMSICHT has developed a novel reactor which introduces the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) process. The TCR® is a process which can convert any type of biomass and organic feedstocks into a variety of energy products (char, bio-oil and permanent gases). The aim of this work was to demonstrate this technology using digestate as the feedstock and to quantify the results from the post reforming step. The temperature of a post reformer was varied to achieve optimised fuel products. The hydrogen rich permanent gases produced were maximised at a post reforming temperature of 1023 K. The highly de-oxygenated liquid bio-oil produced contained a calorific value of 35.2 MJ/kg, with significantly improved fuel physical properties, low viscosity and acid number. Overall digestate showed a high potential as feedstock in the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming to produce pyrolysis fuel products of superior quality.
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg, An der Maxhütte 1, 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. Electronic address: johannes.neumann@umsicht.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg, An der Maxhütte 1, 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. Electronic address: johannes.meyer@umsicht.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg, An der Maxhütte 1, 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. Electronic address: miloud.ouadi@umsicht.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Miloud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ouadi
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg, An der Maxhütte 1, 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. Electronic address: andreas.apfelbacher@umsicht.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Apfelbacher
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg, An der Maxhütte 1, 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. Electronic address: samir.binder@umsicht.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Samir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Binder
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg, An der Maxhütte 1, 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany; School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TT, United Kingdom; School of Science, University of Bologna, Via Selmi, 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy; Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. Electronic address: andreas.hornung@umsicht.fraunhofer.de.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hornung
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D056804:Biofuels / Q000032:analysis*; D018533:Biomass; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D005740:Gases / Q000032:analysis; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007220:Industrial Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D005740:Gases; D007220:Industrial Waste; D062611:Solid Waste
keywords: Agricultural waste treatment; Bio-oil; Biochar; Pyrolysis; Reforming; Thermo-chemical conversion