Gasification of charcoal using supercritical CO2 at high pressures

A novel one-shell high temperature and high pressure semi-continuous reactor has been developed for the study of the Boudouard reaction at temperatures up to 820 °C and pressures up to 32.5 MPa. Semicontinuous gasification of charcoal using supercritical CO2 has been achieved at conversions up to 90.8% (w/w) at LSHV between 20 and 30 h−1 after 5–9 h. A gasification model is proposed and validated. Effective rates of gasification (1.32 ± 0.12) × 10−6 to (6.10 ± 2.03) × 10−5 s−1 were obtained. The results indicated that this method is technically feasible for the on-line production of high pressures streams of CO/CO2 in the lab for carrying out further chemistries, avoiding the use of CO high pressure bottles.