Influence of Fuel Moisture Content and Reactor Temperature on the Calorific Value of Syngas Resulted from Gasification of Oil Palm Fronds

Table 4

Comparison of typical simulation results with experimental values.

Components	Typical	Experimental results at different operation time (min)
	simulation	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	Mean*
	results									error
CO	19.47	21.02	18.07	28.12	25.93	26.22	27.70	28.89	24.01	0.21
CO2	13.99	13.34	15.43	7.73	9.48	9.97	8.15	7.58	9.72	0.47
H2	15.57	11.51	12.59	8.47	9.73	10.71	9.54	9.93	9.39	0.49
CH4	0.01	1.76	2.51	0.91	1.20	1.31	1.15	1.36	1.07	0.86
N2	54.38	52.37	51.40	54.77	53.66	51.79	53.46	52.24	55.81	0.04
LHV (MJ/Nm^3)**	4.30	4.70	4.71	4.97	4.93	5.12	5.12	5.40	4.59	0.10

∗Mean error between typical simulation results and experimental data based on sum square deviation method.
**LHV: low heating value.