TY - JOUR A1 - Anca-Couce, A. A1 - Zobel, N. A1 - Berger, Anka A1 - Behrendt, F. T1 - Smouldering of pine wood: kinetics and reaction heats N2 - A kinetic model of smouldering of pine wood is determined by thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA), describing the reactions of wood pyrolysis, wood oxidation and char oxidation. Thermo-gravimetric experiments were conducted with constant heating rates ranging from 2.5 to 10 K/min in atmospheres of pure nitrogen and mixtures of nitrogen and oxygen (with 20.5%, 8.2% and 4.3% O2). At first wood pyrolysis and char oxidation experiments are carried out in an independent way. Then smouldering experiments are conducted, which combine the two previous reactions with wood oxidation. Finally, the heats of the reactions are determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results are discussed, compared with the literature and the derived kinetic model is presented, which includes five components: three pseudo-components of wood – representing roughly cellulose, hemi-cellulose and lignin – as well as char and ashes. KW - Smouldering KW - Kinetics KW - TGA KW - Biomass PY - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2011.11.015 SN - 0010-2180 SN - 1556-2921 VL - 159 IS - 4 SP - 1708 EP - 1719 PB - Elsevier Inc. CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-25761 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Anca-Couce, A. A1 - Berger, Anka A1 - Zobel, N. T1 - How to determine consistent biomass pyrolysis kinetics in a parallel reaction scheme N2 - This paper discusses a method for determining the kinetics of biomass pyrolysis based on comparing isoconversional methods, such as the Kissinger and KAS methods, and least squares fitting in a parallel reaction scheme with three pseudo-components roughly representing cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. The activation energies of the different pseudo-components reported in the literature vary widely. This variation could be reduced if care were taken to determine the kinetics of biomass pyrolysis: First, the reference experiments with pure cellulose are reproduced to validate the thermogravimetric analysis. Then, experiments are performed and analyzed with different heating rates and isoconversional methods are employed to verify the reliability of the experiments and to avoid selecting inappropriate reaction models in a fitting routine. KW - Kinetics KW - Biomass KW - Pyrolysis KW - Isoconversional KW - Fitting PY - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2014.01.014 SN - 0016-2361 VL - 123 SP - 230 EP - 240 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-31176 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -