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A Novel Two-Stage Alumina Reactor System for Burning Volatiles Generated in Situ from Biosolid: Effect of Pyrolysis Temperature and Combustion Conditions on PM1 Emission Sui Boon Liaw, Changya Deng, and Hongwei Wu*
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Discipline of Chemical Engineering, Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia ABSTRACT: A novel two-stage alumina reactor system is developed for studying particulate matter (PM) emission from in situ volatiles combustion. It enables the generation of in situ volatiles at different pyrolysis temperatures (up to 1300 °C) and the subsequent combustion of in situ volatiles in air and oxyfuel at 1300 °C. It is found that the PM emitted from volatiles combustion contains only PM with aerodynamic diameter
