Abstract
To investigate the kinetic characteristics of coking coal mixed with biomass during pyrolysis, thermogravimetric (TG) and thermo-balance reactor (TBR) analyses were conducted under non-isothermal and isothermal condition. Yellow poplar as a biomass (B) was mixed with weak coking coal (WC) and hard coking coal (HC), respectively. The calculated activation energies of WC/B blends were higher than those of HC/B blends under non-isothermal and isothermal conditions. The coal/biomass blends show increased reactivity and decreased activation energy with increasing biomass blend ratio, regardless of the coking properties of the coal. The different char structures of the WC/B and HC/B blends were analyzed by BET and SEM.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 442-445 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Bioresource Technology |
Volume | 155 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2014 |
Keywords
- Biomass
- Co-pyrolysis
- Hard-coking coal
- Kinetics
- Weak-coking coal