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THERMAL SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 4131-4145Publisher
VINCA INST NUCLEAR SCI
DOI: 10.2298/TSCI2205131C
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reaction kinetics; biomass; pyrolysis; oxy-combustion; thermogravimetric analysis; Friedman; Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose; Flynn-Wall-Ozawa
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This study focused on the determination of kinetic parameters for biomass conversion processes, specifically pyrolysis and oxygen-enriched combustion. Experimental results showed that oxygen-enriched combustion exhibited a more complete reaction with lower char values and higher activation energy values compared to pyrolysis.
Global warming and the GHG effect have forced the reduction of the energetic dependence on fossil fuels. Because of that, research focusing on biomass properties, characteristics and energetic conversion has increased in the last decades. The present study was carried out in terms of determination of kinetic parameters, focusing on two different energetic conversion processes: pyrolysis, carried out under nitrogen atmosphere, and oxygen-enriched combustion, using an atmosphere of air enriched with 30% oxygen. Three different lignocellulosic biomass samples were used. Thermogravimetric analysis was performed using four different heating rates in order to carry out a kinetic analysis using model free methods (Friedman, Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose, and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa). The results showed that oxygen-enriched combustion produced a more complete reaction with low char values and activation energy values greater than pyrolysis values. Among the kinetic methods, Friedman reported the most different values, acceptable for pyrolysis process but not so much for oxygen-enriched combustion.
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