Experimental and theoretical investigation of heat and mass transfer processes during wood pyrolysis

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 481-494

  Park, Won Chan ^a   Atreya, Arvind ^a   Baum, Howard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Charring materials; Pyrolysis; Thermal decomposition; Wood

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PARTICLE; CHARRING MATERIALS; DRY WOOD; ENDOTHERMIC DECOMPOSITION; EXOTHERMIC DECOMPOSITION; EXOTHERMIC PEAKS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HIGH HEATING RATES; HIGH PRESSURE; INTERNAL PRESSURE; MASS LOSS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARALLEL REACTIONS; PRESSURE CALCULATION; PRIMARY FACTORS; PYROLYSIS KINETICS MODEL; PYROLYSIS MECHANISM; PYROLYSIS MODEL; PYROLYSIS REACTION; PYROLYZATES; RESIDENCE TIME; SECONDARY DECOMPOSITION; TEMPERATURE PEAKS; TEMPERATURE PLATEAUS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION; THERMAL DECOMPOSITIONS; THERMAL EVENTS; VERTICAL TUBE FURNACES; WOOD PYROLYSIS;

BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTS; HEATING; HEATING RATE; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTORESISTS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; REACTION KINETICS; TAR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WOOD;

PYROLYSIS;

CELLULOSE; TAR;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS CONVERSION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WOOD;

BIOMASS; CARBONIZATION; EXPERIMENTATION; GRAVIMETRY; HEATING; MASS TRANSFER; PYROLYSIS; PYROMETRY; REACTION KINETICS; TAR; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WOOD;

EID: 73649107323     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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