EUBCE 2024 - Jeremy BOMPAS - Combustion Study of High Steam Content Syngas in a Conventional Micro Gas Turbine: Analysis of Combustion Performance and Impact on Pollutant Emissions

Combustion Study of High Steam Content Syngas in a Conventional Micro Gas Turbine: Analysis of Combustion Performance and Impact on Pollutant Emissions

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Successive energy crises highlight our dependence on fossil resources. However, the demand for electricity and heat continues to grow as fossil resources deplete by definition. Long-term availability prospects, exacerbated by major international conflicts, create uncertainty and tensions in the energy market. Simultaneously, there is an ambition to adhere to the Paris Agreement and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Beyond climate commitments related to greenhouse gases, standards for pollutant emissions are strengthening in global health policies. Renewable resources produced from organic waste, such as syngas, are promising candidates for achieving energy diversification and flexibility goals, especially in the context of decentralized production, such as the use of micro gas turbines in low-power cogeneration applications. The objective of this work is to identify the combustion behaviour of high-steam-content syngas in an industrial combustion chamber originally designed for natural gas.

J. Bompas, University of Mons, BELGIUM
W. De Paepe, University of Mons, BELGIUM