Integrated process plant having a biomass reforming reactor using a fluidized bed

A method to generate chemical grade syngas in an integrated plant, comprising:

• forming a bio-reforming reactor with an interconnected set of two or more stages of reactors that generate and supply syngas for at least one of 1) a methanol synthesis reactor, 2) a Methanol to Gasoline reactor train process, 3) a high temperature Fischer-Tropsch reactor train in the integrated plant, that use the syngas derived from chunks of woods or other lignocellulosic biomass in the bio-reforming reactor, where each stage of the two or more stages includes at least one reactor;
• where a first stage includes a circulating fluidized bed reactor that has one or more stream inputs to feed heat absorbing media, where the heat absorbing media is selected from the group consisting of silica sand, ilmenite, olivine, dolomite, zeolite catalysts and any combination of the five, a vessel to circulate the heat absorbing media, one or more supply inputs to feed the biomass, and has a sparger to input steam, where the heat absorbing media is filtered out from the syngas leaving the circulating fluidized bed reactor with a cyclone filter and then recycled into the circulating fluidized bed reactor, where the cyclone filter is configured to operate at less than maximal efficiency from as low as 75% and no higher than 99%, where this is to ensure that a bulk of the heat absorbing media is returned to the char combustor but will allow lighter ash particles and gas to escape;
• supplying the chunks of woods or other lignocellulosic biomass, which average greater than ½ inch in size into the circulating fluidized bed reactor, where a shape of the circulating fluidized bed reactor and a velocity flow of the biomass set in the circulating fluidized bed reactor are based on using the chunks of woods or other lignocellulosic biomass;
• causing, in the first stage, a chemical devolatilization of the biomass into the biomass's reaction products of constituent gases, tars, chars, and other components, which exit through a reactor output from the first stage;
• receiving a stream of the reaction products that includes the constituent gases and at least some of the tars as raw syngas in a second stage of the bio-reforming reactor;
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• then, chemically reacting the raw syngas within a vessel of the second stage to make the raw syngas from the first stage into the chemical grade syngas by further cracking the tars, excess methane, or both into their constituent molecules so that a resultant syngas stream going out a reactor output of the second stage is supplied to and used in chemical reactions for the at least one of the 1) methanol synthesis reactor, 2) Methanol to Gasoline reactor train process, and 3) high temperature Fischer-Tropsch reactor train, which makes up a downstream component in the integrated plant;
• rather than, just being a source of fuel for burning, where the at least one of the 1) methanol synthesis reactor, 2) Methanol to Gasoline reactor train process, and/or 3) high temperature Fischer-Tropsch reactor train actually uses the chemical grade syngas, derived from the chunks of woods or other lignocellulosic biomass in the bio-reforming reactor, in chemical reactions in their chemical processes rather than just being the source of fuel for burning.