期刊名称：Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
电子版ISSN：1848-9257
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：4
页码：766-787
DOI：10.13044/j.sdewes.d7.0307
出版社：International Centre for Sustainable Developmen of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
摘要：Apricot kernel shells are naturally available source of biomass with potential for conversion to clean energy through a thermo-chemical process such as pyrolysis. To facilitate further process development, an advanced mathematical model which represents the process kinetics is developed and validated on the thermal decomposition studies using simultaneous thermal analysis, over a temperature range of 30-900 °C, at four heating rates of 5, 10, 15 and 20 °C min−1, under argon atmosphere. Model-free analysis and numerically developed methods were utilized for determination of effective activation energies, pre-exponential factors and the fractional contribution. A novel approach is introduced in order to determine actual pseudo-components of studied biomass that are included in its composition. The comparative study of the obtained kinetic results was also presented. The results obtained strongly indicated that the pseudo-component reaction modelling method could be employed to predict the experimental devolatilization rate and biomass composition with a high likelihood of success.
