The Paton Welding Journal, 2025, №05

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The Paton Welding Journal, 2025, #5, 10-29 pages

Implementation and sustainability of biomass gasification using plasma technologies

S.V. Petrov¹, O.I. Som², S.G. Bondarenko³, O.V. Sanginova³, M. Ganczarski⁴, E. Rój⁴

¹The Gas Institute of the NASU 39 Degtyarivska Str., 03113, Kyiv, Ukraine. E-mail: vizana.sp@gmail.com
²Plasma-Master Co., Ltd. 3 Omelian Pritsak Str., 03142, Kyiv, Ukraine
³National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” 37 Prosp. Beresteiskyi, 03056, Kyiv, Ukraine
⁴Hydrogenium P.S.A. (Simple Joint Stock Company) 3/27 Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej Str., Lublin, Poland, 20-029

Abstract
Waste biomass gasification technologies, especially with a focus on hydrogen production, have the potential for large-scale commercialization. The prerequisites for their development and promotion are innovative approaches to modeling, the use of traditional and new gasification mechanisms consistent with fundamental principles, and the development of new technical solutions on this basis. Ultimately, the goal is to significantly improve the gasification process’s technical, economic, and environmental performance. In this context, plasma gasification is a promising renewable energy source from various wastes, including biomass. It contributes to achieving sustainable development goals: affordable and clean energy, climate change mitigation, waste diversion and resource reuse, reinforcing the concept of a circular economy. This paper presents an analysis and assessment of the conditions for increasing gasification processes’ reliability, productivity, and quality while reducing costs, including potential barriers to applying plasma technologies. The paper presents new technological solutions to the problems facing gasification, aimed at optimizing energy flows in the gasification reactor, rational use of plasma as a concentrated energy flow, reducing electricity consumption by plasma torches, reducing the power and cost of plasma installations, as well as a radical solution to the problem of reliability of gasification equipment. The economic prospects for the transition to large-scale production, where a reduction in capital and operating costs can be expected, are considered.
Keywords: biomass gasification, plasma gasification, plasmatron, synthesis gas, gasifier, energy efficiency of the gasification process

Received: 25.03.2025
Received in revised form: 29.04.2025
Accepted: 23.06.2025

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