First stage process configurations in a 2-stage bio-reforming reactor system

A method of an integrated plant, comprising:

• a) forming a bio-reforming reactor having at least a first stage and a second stage of the bio-reforming reactor that are interconnected;
• b) generating syngas, including:
• feeding biomass including wood to the bio-reforming reactor and generating syngas from the biomass for any one or more reactor trains downstream of the second stage of the bio-reforming reactor selected from 1) a methanol synthesis reactor train, 2) a methanol-to-gasoline reactor train, and 3) a Fischer-Tropsch reactor train, where any fuel products produced by the one or more reactor trains have a biogenic content of between 50% and 100%,
• wherein feeding the biomass to the bio-reforming reactor includes receiving the biomass by one or more biomass inputs of a fluidized-bed gasifier of the first stage of the bio-reforming reactor;
• causing a set of chemical reactions in the biomass to produce reaction products of constituent gases, tars, chars, and other components;
• sending at least some of the reaction products through a moving-bed filtration system of the first stage of the bio-reforming reactor to produce a stream of raw syngas;
• receiving the stream of raw syngas by one or more inputs of one or more reactors of the second stage of the bio-reforming reactor;
• further processing the raw syngas within the one or more reactors of the second stage to yield a chemical grade syngas, the further processing including at least cracking light hydrocarbons (C1-C4) into constituent molecules for the one or more of the selected reactor trains;
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• c) managing heat-absorbing media used in generating the syngas, including:
• receiving the media by one or more media inputs of the gasifier, circulating the media in a vessel of the gasifier, and sending the media through one or more outputs of the gasifier to supply the media to another operation unit in a media recirculation loop;
• receiving the media by one or more media inputs of a fluidized-bed combustor of the first stage of the bio-reforming reactor, circulating the media in a vessel of the combustor, and sending the media through one or more outputs of the combustor to supply the media to another operation unit in the media recirculation loop;
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• receiving the media by one or more media inputs of the moving-bed filtration system, packing a filtration bed of the moving-bed filtration system, and sending the media through one or more outputs of the moving-bed filtration system to supply the media to another operation unit in the media recirculation loop.