Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 2987-2993Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.040
Keywords
CO/CO(2 )ratio; Mass transfer; Combustion; Coal char; Thermogravimetry
Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/1010912/1, EP/K030132/1, EP/L022427/1]
- EPSRC [EP/L022427/1, EP/I010912/1, EP/K030132/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This work presents a new method of measuring the CO/CO2 ratio at the surface of carbon particles during combustion. This thermogravimetric method deduces the ratio of CO to CO2 by comparing the rate of consumption of carbon with the rate of oxidation of an external reference material with fast oxidation kinetics, in this case Cu. The method is useful when combustion is controlled by external mass transfer, commonly encountered in large-scale processes. The viability of this method has been demonstrated experimentally with graphite and a lignite char. It was found that in an atmosphere of similar to 1% O-2, the graphite produced CO2 between 700 and 900 degrees C whilst the lignite char produced a mixture of CO and CO2 between 700 and 800 degrees C with the proportion of CO increasing with temperature, and above 850 degrees C, only CO was produced. It was also found that for this particular lignite char, the ratio of CO/CO2 increased with decreasing pO(2) in the environment. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Combustion Institute.
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