Modeling the impact of bubbling bed hydrodynamics on tar yield and its fluctuations during biomass fast pyrolysis

Fuel

Volumn 164, Issue , 2016, Pages 11-17

  Xiong, Qingang ^a   Xu, Fei ^b   Ramirez, Emilio ^a   Pannala, Sreekanth ^c   Daw, C Stuart ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^c Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation Americas   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass fast pyrolysis; Bubbling bed hydrodynamics; Multi fluid model; Slugging; Tar yield fluctuation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BUBBLE FORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY; FAST PYROLYSIS; MULTI-FLUID MODELS; SLUGGING; YIELD FLUCTUATIONS;

TAR;

EID: 84944266941     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2015.09.074     Document Type: Article

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