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ENERGY & FUELS
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 4999-5004Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b00640
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- International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) ECOFUEL programme (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES) [246772]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/K036548/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K036548/2, EP/J020184/2, EP/K036548/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K036548/1, EP/J020184/2, EP/K036548/2] Funding Source: researchfish
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The viscosity of four aged bio-oil samples was measured experimentally at various shear rates and temperatures using a rotational viscometer. The experimental bio-oils were derived from fast pyrolysis of beech wood at 450, 500, and 550 degrees C and Miscanthus at 500 degrees C (in this work, they were named as BW1, BW2, BW3, and MXG) in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor. The viscosity of all bio-oils was kept constant at various shear rates at the same temperature, which indicated that they were Newtonian fluids. The viscosity of bio-oils was strongly dependent upon the temperature, and with the increase of the temperature from 30 to 80 degrees C, the viscosity of BW1, BW2, BW3, and MXG decreased by 90.7, 93.3, 92.6, and 90.2%, respectively. The Arrhenius viscosity model, which has been commonly used to represent the temperature dependence of the :viscosity of many fluids, did not fit the viscosity-temperature experimental data of all bio-oils very well, especially in the low- and high-temperature regions. For comparison, the Williams-Landel-Ferry (WLF) model was also used. The results, showed:that the WLF model gave a very good description of the viscosity-temperature relationship of each bio-oil with very small residuals and the BW3, bio-oil had the strongest viscosity-temperature dependence.
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