Modeling the impact of bubbling bed hydrodynamics on tar yield and its fluctuations during biomass fast pyrolysis

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Xiong, Qingang¹  Xu, Fei²  Ramirez, Emilio¹  Pannala, Sreekanth³  Daw, C. Stuart¹ 

[1] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA

[2] Iowa State Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Ames, IA 50011 USA

[3] Saudi Arabia Basic Ind Corp Amer, Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA

关键词: Biomass fast pyrolysis;    Bubbling bed hydrodynamics;    Multi-fluid model;    Tar yield fluctuation;    Slugging;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.fuel.2015.09.074

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The impact of bubbling bed hydrodynamics on temporal variations in the exit tar yield for biomass fast pyrolysis was investigated using computational simulations of an experimental laboratory-scale reactor. A multi-fluid computational fluid dynamics model was employed to simulate the differential conservation equations in the reactor, and this was combined with a multi-component, multi-step pyrolysis kinetics scheme for biomass to account for chemical reactions. The predicted mean tar yields at the reactor exit appear to match corresponding experimental observations. Parametric studies predicted that increasing the fluidization velocity should improve the mean tar yield but increase its temporal variations. Increases in the mean tar yield coincide with reducing the diameter of sand particles or increasing the initial sand bed height. However, trends in tar yield variability are more complex than the trends in mean yield. The standard deviation in tar yield reaches a maximum with changes in sand particle size. The standard deviation in tar yield increases with the increases in initial bed height in freely bubbling state, while reaches a maximum in slugging state. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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