A New Approach towards Production of Syngas as a Precursor for Manufacturing Ammonia

Abstract

In this study, rice husk as biomass undergoes drying and gasification process to produce syngas. Moisture from biomass is removed to get dry biomass which is then gasified at 700℃. Ash is produced which is separated through separator and product gas is passed to heat exchanger to reduce its temperature. Finally, syngas is obtained which is a precursor for production of ammonia. The process simulation is done using Aspen Plus software. The model is validated and the effect of gasification temperature, gasification pressure, and equivalence ratio (ER) on gas component composition, gas yield, and gasification efficiency was investigated using Aspen Plus simulation.