Releasing behavior of alkali and alkaline earth metals during biomass gasification

HAN Xu; ZHANG Yan-feng; YAO Ding-ding; QIAN Ke-zhen; YANG Hai-ping; WANG Xian-hua

Volume 42 Issue 07

Jul. 2014

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HAN Xu, ZHANG Yan-feng, YAO Ding-ding, QIAN Ke-zhen, YANG Hai-ping, WANG Xian-hua. Releasing behavior of alkali and alkaline earth metals during biomass gasification[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2014, 42(07): 792-798.

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HAN Xu, ZHANG Yan-feng, YAO Ding-ding, QIAN Ke-zhen, YANG Hai-ping, WANG Xian-hua. Releasing behavior of alkali and alkaline earth metals during biomass gasification[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2014, 42(07): 792-798.

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Releasing behavior of alkali and alkaline earth metals during biomass gasification

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State Key Laboratory of Biomass Thermochemical Technology, Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430223, China;
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State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Received Date: 2013-12-20
Rev Recd Date: 2014-03-29
Publish Date: 2014-07-30

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Abstract

The releasing characteristics of alkali and alkaline earth metals (AAEMs) during CO₂ gasification process of biomass and pyrolyzed char were explored in a fixed bed reactor. The amount of AAEMs releasing during the gasification of various feedstocks at different pyrolysis temperatures was determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Differences in weight loss of biomass during gasification are resulted from the diversity of volatile content in different biomass feedstocks. Along with the increasing of pyrolysis temperature, the reactivity of char gasification is decreased. It is found that the releasing amount of Na is larger than that of K, and that of alkaline earth metals is less, which is related to their existence form and metal valence. The increasing of pyrolysis temperature can improve the release of K at low temperatures, while it has little influence on the release of Na during the whole pyrolysis and gasification process. The type of biomass especially the Si content in ash has a significant impact on the migration of Ca and Mg, and higher char gasification conversion leads to a larger releasing amount of AAEMs. Results of thermodynamic calculations show that K and Na are released mostly in the form of chloride, while Ca and Mg mainly exist in the form of silicate which is hard to release.
- biomass,
- gasification,
- AAEMs,
- thermodynamic calculation

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