 Experimental study on Egyptian biomass combustion in circulating fluidized bedMahmoud A. Youssef, Seddik S. Wahid, Maher A. Mohamed and Ahmed A. Askalany Applied Energy, 2009, vol. 86, issue 12, 2644-2650 Abstract: The present study investigates the combustion of four kinds of biomass in a circulating fluidized bed. The combustion chamber is a steel cylinder with 145Â mm inner diameter and 2Â m height. Tests were conducted on wheat straw, sawdust-wood, cottonseed burs, and corncobs. Excess air was varied for each fuel. Temperature, heat flux and gas emissions were measured along the combustion chamber and at the chimney inlet. Results showed that sawdust-wood produces the highest values of CO emissions (about 3000Â mg/Nm3). On the other hand, cottonseed burs produce the lowest values of CO emissions (about 250Â mg/Nm3). The SO2 emissions were very low in all tests (less than 20Â mg/Nm3). The lowest emission value occurred at an excess air ratio (EA) of 1.24 except for cottonseed burs where it was 1.4. Keywords: Biomass; Fluidized; bed; combustion; Pollutant; emissions; Renewable; energy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:appene:v:86:y:2009:i:12:p:2644-2650 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Applied Energy is currently edited by J. Yan More articles in Applied Energy from Elsevier |
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