Releasing behavior of chlorine and fluorine during agricultural waste pyrolysis

Shenglei Du, Xianhua Wang, Jingai Shao, Haiping Yang, Guangfu Xu and Hanping Chen

Energy, 2014, vol. 74, issue C, 295-300

Abstract: The releasing behavior of chlorine (Cl) and fluorine (F) during agricultural waste pyrolysis was investigated using a fixed-bed pyrolysis system with pyrohydrolytic-ion chromatography and thermodynamic equilibrium calculation. Agricultural waste contains a large amount of Cl-bearing species, among which approximately 30% is easily released with biomass drying. During biomass pyrolysis, Cl-bearing species evolve out rapidly to the gas phase, and higher temperature is favorable for the releasing. The releasing process can be divided into two ranges: the fast evaporating range (200–600 °C) and slow evaporating range (600–1000 °C). F shows similar transforming behavior. However, higher temperature is preferred for the release. Thermodynamic simulation shows that Cl mainly exists as KCl(g) at higher temperatures (>600 °C) with some HCl(g) and K2Cl2(g) as intermediate species at lower temperatures (<600 °C), whereas F mainly releases as SiF4 at higher temperatures (>500 °C) with SF5Cl being the dominant F-bearing species at lower temperatures (<500 °C).

Keywords: Biomass pyrolysis; F/Cl-bearing species; Releasing behavior; Thermodynamic equilibrium calculation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.01.012

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