Investigation on Pyrolysis Characteristic and Kinetic Analysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass Model Compound

Abstract:

Lignocellulosic biomass gasification is considered as one of the effective methods for transforming scattered biomass into heat, power and various chemicals. As a fundamental step for biomass gasification, pyrolysis has remarkable influence on products distribution and char reactivity during the further step. Further research on the pyrolysis process of lignocellulosic biomass is beneficial to optimize and promote the process of gasification. In this paper, pyrolysis characteristic of a kind of lignocellulosic biomass model compound (cellulose) was explored through thermogravimetric analyzer. The temperature was from 25 °C to 950 °C under various heating rates (10, 20, 40 °C·min^-1) with nitrogen atmosphere. A three step selecting method for mechanism function was used to check out the optimum model from fifteen kinds of most frequently used mechanisms. The results indicated that under various heating rates, the optimum mechanism model for the cellulose in this paper was different. The values of activation energy and frequency factor for cellulose pyrolysis calculated by the three step method in this paper under 10, 20, 40 °C·min^-1 were 245.95, 212.09 and 144.27 kJ·mol^-1, 8.47E+17, 5.35E+18 and 1.20E+11 s^-1, respectively.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 953-954)
• Pages: 224-229
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.953-954.224
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Zhi Qiang Wu, Shu Zhong Wang*, Jun Zhao, Lin Chen, Hai Yu Meng
• Keywords: Cellulose, Kinetic Analysis, Lignocellulosic Biomass, Pyrolysis Characteristic

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