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APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 157, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.04.043
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- University of Pittsburgh Center for Research Computing (CRC)
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In this work, a model using the Friedman method was applied to describe thermal decomposition of a biomass sample, Rhus Typhina (RT). The kinetic parameters such as activation energy and pre-exponential factor were achieved from this method. To provide more detailed description of biomass pyrolysis, a three pseudocomponents distributed activation energy model (DAEM) was developed. In this DAEM model, a probability density function (PDF), the normal distribution function, was utilized to describe the distribution of activation energies for chemical reactions during pyrolysis. More importantly, three pseudo-components were proposed to represent hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin & others. The three pseudo-components DAEM model was employed to predict biomass conversion and thermal decomposition rates. Moreover, a nonlinear dynamic optimization model was built and integrated with the DAEM to achieve better model-fitting. The model predictions were compared and validated with 3 sets of experiment data. Case studies were also conducted to investigate the impact of the PDF on thermal decomposition of hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin.
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