The chapter focuses on the use of steam as the gasification agent in the thermochemical conversion of biomass to produce hydrogen-rich syngas and eventually 99.999% hydrogen after gas separations. Clean Energy Enterprises (CEE) is developing the Ways2H technology, to convert organic wastes into a syngas, from which hydrogen fuel and end-of-process solid co-products such as carbonates can be extracted while capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Waste-to-hydrogen technologies do not generate a usable energy product directly, but indirectly, by generating a hydrogen product that can be used as clean, renewable fuel in traditional power generating plants, in hydrogen-fueled transportation equipment, and for other non-fuel purposes. The Ways2H plant design generates hydrogen in a completely closed-loop thermal gasification and separation process, with minimal air emissions as compared with waste incineration technologies as well as other known gasification processes.
Part of the book: Research Advances in Syngas