Patent ID: 11970667
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Basic materials chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  Y | IPC C

Claim 0:
1. A fuel production system for producing a liquid fuel from biomass feedstock, comprising:
a gasification furnace configured to gasify biomass feedstock to produce a syngas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide;
a liquid fuel production unit configured to produce a liquid fuel from the syngas produced by the gasification furnace;
an electrolysis unit configured to produce hydrogen from water using electric power generated using renewable energy;
a hydrogen tank configured to store the hydrogen produced by the electrolysis unit;
a remaining hydrogen amount determining section configured to determine a remaining amount of hydrogen in the hydrogen tank;
a hydrogen supply unit configured to supply the hydrogen from the hydrogen tank into the gasification furnace or a biomass feedstock supply channel connected to the gasification furnace; and
a control unit configured to control an amount of hydrogen supplied by the hydrogen supply unit to adjust a H2/CO ratio of the syngas discharged from the gasification furnace, wherein
when the remaining amount of hydrogen is more than a predetermined upper threshold, the control unit increases the amount of hydrogen supplied by the hydrogen supply unit more than when the remaining amount of hydrogen is less than the upper threshold.