Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions

Victorian brown coal has high reactivity for gasification because of catalysis of inherent AAEM species. It was, however, found recently that the inhibitory effects of the volatile-char interactions on char gasification are not negligible. In this study, the effects of volatiles were examined with a...

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Main Authors: Kajitani, Shiro, Tay, Hui-Ling, Zhang, Shu, Li, Chun-Zhu
Other Authors: Mark J. Biggs
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ICMS Pty Ltd 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44712
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author Kajitani, Shiro
Tay, Hui-Ling
Zhang, Shu
Li, Chun-Zhu
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Tay, Hui-Ling
Zhang, Shu
Li, Chun-Zhu
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description Victorian brown coal has high reactivity for gasification because of catalysis of inherent AAEM species. It was, however, found recently that the inhibitory effects of the volatile-char interactions on char gasification are not negligible. In this study, the effects of volatiles were examined with a novel fluidised-bed/fixed-bed reactor, and the mechanisms and kinetics model of the char gasification and volatile-char interactions were discussed to describe quantitatively the inhibition of volatiles about char gasification. Victorian brown coal sample was gasified with steam at 800 °C at various feeding rates. As a result, char yields became higher at higher feeding rate at the same feeding time because of the volatile-char interactions. The elementary reactions of the char gasification and volatile-char interactions were proposed and the L-H type reaction rate equations for brown coal gasification were newly derived, and the kinetics model was verified by the comparison with experiments. The experimental data of the char yields and the concentrations of Na in gasified char were able to be estimated by theproposed kinetics model. This model would be useful to estimate the performance of the gasifier for Victorian brown coal.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-447122017-01-30T15:15:53Z Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions Kajitani, Shiro Tay, Hui-Ling Zhang, Shu Li, Chun-Zhu Mark J. Biggs reactivity Victorian brown coal char catalyst gasification Victorian brown coal has high reactivity for gasification because of catalysis of inherent AAEM species. It was, however, found recently that the inhibitory effects of the volatile-char interactions on char gasification are not negligible. In this study, the effects of volatiles were examined with a novel fluidised-bed/fixed-bed reactor, and the mechanisms and kinetics model of the char gasification and volatile-char interactions were discussed to describe quantitatively the inhibition of volatiles about char gasification. Victorian brown coal sample was gasified with steam at 800 °C at various feeding rates. As a result, char yields became higher at higher feeding rate at the same feeding time because of the volatile-char interactions. The elementary reactions of the char gasification and volatile-char interactions were proposed and the L-H type reaction rate equations for brown coal gasification were newly derived, and the kinetics model was verified by the comparison with experiments. The experimental data of the char yields and the concentrations of Na in gasified char were able to be estimated by theproposed kinetics model. This model would be useful to estimate the performance of the gasifier for Victorian brown coal. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44712 ICMS Pty Ltd fulltext
spellingShingle reactivity
Victorian brown coal
char
catalyst
gasification
Kajitani, Shiro
Tay, Hui-Ling
Zhang, Shu
Li, Chun-Zhu
Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions
title Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions
title_full Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions
title_fullStr Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions
title_full_unstemmed Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions
title_short Kinetics of Steam Gasification of Brown Coal and Volatile-Char Interactions
title_sort kinetics of steam gasification of brown coal and volatile-char interactions
topic reactivity
Victorian brown coal
char
catalyst
gasification
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44712