Valorization of agro-industrial residues using thermochemical processing for energy generation

• Grant number: 18/08419-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2018
• End date: November 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Thermal Engineering
• Agreement: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
• Principal Investigator: João Andrade de Carvalho Junior
• Grantee: João Andrade de Carvalho Junior
• Principal researcher abroad: Daniel Travieso Pedroso
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), Chile
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEG). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Guaratinguetá. Guaratinguetá , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Eliana Vieira Canettieri ; Leila Ribeiro dos Santos ; Pedro Teixeira Lacava
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/13978-2 - Support for characterization tests of gas mixtures in internal combustion engines, BP.TT; 19/05075-5 - Characterization of agro-industrial residues and evaluation of their energy potential at long-term use in Brazil, BP.TT

Abstract

Agro-industries and the supply and distribution chain produced globally a large amount of residues. If these residues are released to the environment, without proper disposal or recycling procedure, they cause environmental pollution and harmful effects on human and animal health. Most of the agro-industrial residues are untreated or underutilized; consequently, in maximum, they are disposed either by burning, dumping or unplanned landfilling. An attractive alternative for the exploitation the agro-industrial residues is to use them as energy sources for the decentralized production of heat and electricity by installing low and medium capacity gasifiers, integrated to internal combustion engines or micro gas turbines fueled with producer gas. However, this alternative is hindering by the broad spectrum of physical-chemical properties of agro-industrial residues, mainly deposited as mixtures of agriculture residues. The joint project proposes to face this challenge acting over the medullary points of the problem, bringing an integral technology for the valorization of agro-industrial residues using thermochemical processing for energy generation in heat machines, applying the expertise of participating researchers of a bi-national team. The project proposes a methodology for upgrading the combustible properties of agro-industrial residues, describes the fluid-dynamic behavior of the upgraded agro-industrial residue mixtures in a fluidized bed reactor, identifies the operational parameters for its efficient gasification in fluidized bed, and characterizes the combustion process of producer gas from gasification of these residues mixtures with an assessment the effect of the use of hydrogen as its flame modulator. Finally the ecological-energetic impact of the implementation of the gasification of residues for electrical and thermal energy generation will be assessed, by using the production gas in heat machines. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MACHIN, EINARA BLANCO; PEDROSO, DANIEL TRAVIESO; ACOSTA, DAVIEL GOMEZ; SILVA DOS SANTOS, MARIA ISABEL; DE CARVALHO, FELIPE SOLFERINI; MACHIN, ADRIAN BLANCO; NEIRA ORTIZ, MATIAS ABNER; SANCHEZ ARRIAGADA, REINALDO; TRAVIESO FERNANDEZ, DANIEL IGNACIO; BRAGA MACIEL, LUCIA BOLLINI; et al. Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Energetic Valorization. ENERGIES, v. 15, n. 23, p. 17-pg., 2022-12-01. (18/08419-4)

DE CARVALHO, FELIPE SOLFERINI; MENDOZA, ALEXANDER PENARANDA; DOS SANTOS, LEILA RIBEIRO; RUFINO, CAIO HENRIQUE; DE OLIVEIRA, ENRICO MALHEIRO; SILVA, MAYCON FERREIRA; MACHIN, EINARA BLANCO; PEDROSO, DANIEL TRAVIESO; LACAVA, PEDRO TEIXEIRA. Experimental study of the methane and producer gas blends in an optical spark ignition engine: Combustion characteristics, thermodynamics and emissions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINE RESEARCH, v. N/A, p. 19-pg., 2022-10-31. (18/08419-4)

MACHIN, EINARA BLANCO; PEDROSO, DANIEL TRAVIESO; MACHIN, ADRIAN BLANCO; ACOSTA, DAVIEL GOMEZ; DOS SANTOS, MARIA ISABEL SILVA; DE CARVALHO, FELIPE SOLFERINI; PEREZ, NESTOR PROENZA; PASCUAL, RODRIGO; DE CARVALHO JUNIOR, JOAO ANDRADE. Biomass integrated gasification-gas turbine combined cycle (BIG/GTCC) implementation in the Brazilian sugarcane industry: Economic and environmental appraisal. RENEWABLE ENERGY, v. 172, p. 529-540, JUL 2021. (18/08419-4)

PEDROSO, DANIEL TRAVIESO; MACHIN, EINARA BLANCO; CABRERA-BARJAS, GUSTAVO; FLORES, MAURICIO; URRA, HECTOR GRANDON; DE CARVALHO, FELIPE SOLFERINI; DOS SANTOS, MARIA ISABEL SILVA; MACHIN, ADRIAN BLANCO; CANETTIERI, ELIANA VIEIRA; PEREZ, NESTOR PROENZA; et al. Sugarcane Bagasse Torrefaction for Fluidized Bed Gasification. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, v. 11, n. 13, JUL 2021. (18/08419-4)