Linear-Rate Reactions for the Thermal Devolatilization of Wheat Straw Based on Pseudo-Components by Carmen Branca

Author:Carmen Branca
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Tags: Thermogravimetric curves are measured in the nitrogen of wheat straw heated up to 773 K with rates between 5–20 K/min. A five-step (or component) parallel reaction scheme was developed for the interpretation of the weight loss characteristics, which makes use of the lumped volatile products based on the volatiles released by the pseudo-macrocomponents. The volumetric rates show the usual Arrhenius dependence on temperature and a linear dependence on the mass fraction of the lumped volatile products. The wheat straw devolatilization mechanism consists of a single step for pseud-ocellulose (activation energies of about 180 kJ/mol) and two steps for the pseudohemicellulose, also including extractives, (activation energies of about 101 and 136 kJ/mol) and pseudo-lignin (activation energies of 189 and 126 kJ/mol). For the first two pseudo-macrocomponents, the activation energies were lower than those obtained through a similar approach for beech wood, owing to the much higher content of alkalis acting as catalysts for the decomposition reactions. These occur at lower temperatures and show an enhanced overlap between the pseudo-components., wheat straw; pyrolysis; devolatilization; TGA; kinetics


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