Effects of Dewatering on the Pyrolysis and Gasification Reactivity of Victorian Brown Coal
Effects of Dewatering on the Pyrolysis and Gasification Reactivity of Victorian Brown Coal
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DOI:
10.1021/ef060404y
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发表时间:
2007-03
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影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Cai Zeng;S. Clayton;Hongwei Wu;J. Hayashi;Chun-Zhu Li
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作者:
Cai Zeng;S. Clayton;Hongwei Wu;J. Hayashi;Chun-Zhu Li
This study aims to investigate the effects of dewatering on the primary pyrolysis behavior and gasification reactivity of Victorian brown coal. Dewatered brown coal samples were prepared by dewatering/drying of the brown coal in steam and by means of mechanical thermal expression (MTE). The primary pyrolysis behavior and gasification reactivity of these dewatered coal/char samples were evaluated in a wire-mesh reactor and in a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA), respectively. It was found that changes in the physical structure of the brown coal and the loss of NaCl during dewatering at low temperatures did not significantly affect the char and tar yields. However, dewatering/drying at temperatures > 250 °C not only reduced the volatile yield but also shifted the normalized derivative thermogravimetric (DTG) peak to a higher temperature during pyrolysis in the TGA under constant heating rates. The analysis of the pyrolysis kinetics of dewatered brown coal samples using a distributed activation energy model i...