Thermochemical conversion of biomass in smouldering combustion across scales: The roles of heterogeneous kinetics, oxygen and transport phenomena

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 207, Issue , 2016, Pages 409-421

  Huang, Xinyan ^a   Rein, Guillermo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational; Heat and mass transfer; Oxidation; Pyrolysis; Thermogravimetry

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEAT TRANSFER; KINETICS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PYROLYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HETEROGENEOUS KINETICS; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; SMOULDERING COMBUSTIONS; THERMOCHEMICAL CONVERSION;

MASS TRANSFER;

OXYGEN; BIOFUEL; CELLULOSE; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PEAT; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMOCHEMISTRY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMBUSTION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MOISTURE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMOCHEMICAL CONVERSION; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; HEAT; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; HOT TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; LIGNIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; POLYSACCHARIDES; THERMOGRAVIMETRY;

EID: 84958544097     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.01.027     Document Type: Article

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