Kinetic analyses of biomass pyrolysis using the distributed activation energy model
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Author list: Sonobe T., Worasuwannarak N.
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2008
Journal: Fuel: The Science and Technology of Fuel and Energy (0016-2361)
Volume number: 87
Issue number: 3
Start page: 414
End page: 421
Number of pages: 8
ISSN: 0016-2361
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
The pyrolysis behaviors of several agricultural residues have been investigated by using thermogravimetric analysis. The evolving rates of the gaseous products during the pyrolysis such as H2, CH4, H2O, CO and CO2 were also measured by the TG-MS techniques. Without any assumption and mathematical fitting, we could obtain the very proper kinetic parameters (the distribution curve of activation energy, f(E), and the activation energy dependent frequency factor, k0(E)) of biomass pyrolysis by utilizing the distributed activation energy model (DAEM) proposed by Miura and Maki [Miura K, Maki T. Energ Fuel 1998;12:864]. The peaks of f(E) curve for rice straw, rice husk, corncob and cellulose were found to be 170, 174, 183, and 185 kJ/mol, respectively. The k0 value increased from an order of 1011 to an order of 1018 s-1, while E increased from 120 to 250 kJ/mol. The catalytic effects of alkali and alkaline earth metals during the pyrolysis play a major role in the variation of f(E) curve among the different biomass species. ฉ 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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