Integrated high temperature gas cleaning: Tar removal in biomass gasification with a catalytic filter

Conversion data can be reasonably well described with first order kinetics and a dominant adsorption inhibition of the Ni sites by H2S. The apparent activation energies obtained are similar to those reported by other investigators: 177 kJ/mol for benzene and 92 kJ/mol for naphthalene. The estimated heat of adsorption of H2S is 71 kJ/mol in the benzene experiments and 182 kJ/mol in the naphthalene experiments, which points at very strong adsorption of H2S. Good operation of the present material can hence only be guaranteed at temperatures above 830 °C mainly due to the strong deactivation by H2S at lower temperatures.