Power production by biomass gasification technologies

This chapter is dedicated to an overview of the technological options to produce in an efficient way power from biomass gasification products. This is a very important task as it tries to couple two different aspects: the benefits coming from biomass gasification, in terms of efficiency and environmentally friendly operations, with the new trends of bio syngas energetic valorization. The final goal is to explore all the potential steps for an integrated process able to valorize fully the energy content of biomass in a wide range of potential sustainable energy vectors: from pure hydrogen to electrical energy via-fuel cells or high-performance internal combustion engines. More attention is paid to the effect of processing gas coming out from gasification of biomasses that exhibits some specific characteristics such as a wide variability on hydrocarbon composition or the presence of inorganic undesired compounds.