Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4996272 | Biomass and Bioenergy | 2017 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Glycerol is a co-product compound of biodiesel production with an interesting heating value. In this work pyrolysis kinetic parameters for a pellet made with a mass fraction of 90% sawdust and a mass fraction of 10% glycerol are derived through thermogravimetric analysis. A new parallel reaction scheme with four components (cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and glycerol) is adopted and the kinetic triplet for each component is derived using a model fitting approach applied to this particular kind of pellet. The isoconversional method Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose is employed both to provide initial values for model fitting simulations and to check final results. Results show that activation energies and pre-exponential factors are respectively: 149.7 kJ molâ1 and 1.98*1011 sâ1 for hemicellulose, 230.1 kJ molâ1 and 1.84*1017 sâ1 for cellulose, 154.3 kJ molâ1 and 5.14*109 sâ1 for lignin, 74.5 kJ molâ1 and 2.17*105 sâ1 for glycerol with a first reaction order for all components, except for lignin (n = 2.6). Through evolved gas analysis it was demonstrated that the thermal degradation of glycerol contained in the pellet can increase hydrogen content in pyrolysis gases.
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Authors
P. Bartocci, A. Anca-Couce, K. Slopiecka, S. Nefkens, N. Evic, S. Retschitzegger, M. Barbanera, C. Buratti, F. Cotana, G. Bidini, F. Fantozzi,