Biomass - alternative renewable energy source and its conversion for hydrogen rich gas production

¹ National Research Institute for Cryogenic & Isotopic Technologies, Uzinei No.4; P.O.Raureni P.O.Box 7; 240050 Rm.Valcea Romania
² Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Askerceva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
³ Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, Bucharest, 060042 Romania

^* Corresponding author: elenadavid2004@yahoo.com

Abstract

This paper presnts biomass as a renewable energy source and defines the resources as well as the ways through biomass energy is converted into fuels, the technologies used for extracting the energy from biomass as well as the advantages and disadvantages that appear by using of biomass as a energy source. In addition,it is known hydrogen is an important alternative energy vector and a bridge to a sustainable way fot the energy future. Hydrogen is an energy carrier and can be obtained by different production technologies from a large variety of primary energy sources. At present, many researches are focused on getting energy from biomass, a sustainable and non-polluting way to replace fossil fuels, because the biomass can be considered as the best option with high potential, which meets energy requirements and could insure fuel supply in the future. Biomass and residual biomass can be used to produce hydrogen rich gas sustainably. Biomass pyrolysis and gasification offers an efficiency and economical route for the renewable hydrogen production and this is also discussed in the paper.