Prediction of thermal degradation of biopolymers in biomass under pyrolysis atmosphere by means of machine learning

Furkan Kartal, Yağmur Dalbudak and Uğur Özveren

Renewable Energy, 2023, vol. 204, issue C, 774-787

Abstract: Biomass is the most widespread among renewable energy sources and offers many advantages. However, the heterogeneous structure of biomass brings many disadvantages. Therefore, characterization of thermal degradation of biopolymeric structures in biomass such as hemicellulose (HC), cellulose (CL), and lignin (LN) is very important for the efficiency of any biomass-based thermal process. On the other hand, the characterization of these biopolymers requires various experimental procedures that consume resources and time. Artificial neural networks (ANN) as a machine learning approach provide a remarkable opportunity to identify patterns in the complex structure of biomass fuels and their thermochemical degradation processes. In this study, a new model was developed for the first time to generate differential thermogravimetric analysis (DTG) curves for HC, CL and LN in biomass using proximate analysis results of raw biomass. DTG curves were evaluated using a ANN model developed with the open-source “TensorFlow” library in Python software. ANN model performed excellently with R2 values above 0.998. The results show that the newly developed model can estimate the thermal degradation for any temperature, so that biopolymer fractions in the degraded biomass can be calculated immediately, which has not been reported before.

Keywords: Biopolymers; Biomass; Thermal degradation; Artificial neural networks; Biomass characterization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.01.017

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