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In-situ Raman spectroscopy study on catalytic pyrolysis of a bituminous coal
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Huaili Zhu, Guangsuo Yu*, Qinghua Guo, Xingjun Wang*
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Key Laboratory of Coal Gasification and Energy Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education
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East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237 (PR China)1
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Abstract: How different catalysts would affect the evolution of char structure with increasing temperature in
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pyrolysis of coal is fundamentally important for coal clean utilization. In this study, we applied in-situ Raman
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spectroscopy and a fixed-bed reactor to characterize the evolution of char structure and product gas formation
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behavior. The results showed that the formation curves of main gases presented two stages and the catalyst
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enhanced the pyrolysis significantly. The Raman spectra were fitted with a combination of 4 Lorentzian bands (D1,
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D2, D4, G) and 1 Gaussian band (D3) in the first-order region. Spectral parameters, such as band position, full
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widths at half maximum (FWHM) and band area ratio, were used to characterize char structure. The D1 and G
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band FWHM, band area ratios ID1/IG, ID3/IG and ID4/IG increased with increasing temperature while the D1 and G
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band positions and IG/IAll decreased indicating a decrease in the ordering of char structure. The addition of catalyst
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led to a lower degree of char structure order. A thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was also used to measure the
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reactivity of char derived from pyrolysis and the results showed a good correlation between reactivity indexes and
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IG/IAll.
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Keywords: coal pyrolysis; char structure; in-situ Raman spectroscopy; gasification reactivity
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1 Introduction
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Gasification has been an efficient technology for coal clean utilization. The whole process of coal
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gasification involves two main steps: coal pyrolysis and char gasification. As the prior step of char gasification,
*Corresponding authors. Tel.: +86-21-64252974; Fax: +86-21-64251312. E-mail:
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pyrolysis or devolatilization of coal is essential and has been extensively studied over the past decades.1-3 Good
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understanding of the mechanism of pyrolysis and decomposition reactions of coal would help clarifying the char
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structure evolution. Pyrolysis conditions, such as heating rate, temperature and catalyst, have dramatically
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influence on the evolution of char structure which affects the gasification reactivity of char.
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In pyrolysis process, coal is devolatilized with the production of char, gas and tar. In initial time, temperature
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is low and the weak non-covalent bonds such as hydrogen bond are cracked and reduced.4 With rising temperature,
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bridge bonds begin to be cleaved, resulting in the formation of free radical groups and a large amount of CO and
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CO2. Meanwhile, the residue char undergoes further condensation reactions, which has been recognized as one of
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the primary reasons responsible for the low reaction rate in the later stage of char gasification.5 Considerable
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literatures have reported that metal-based catalyst, such as alkalis (K),6-8 alkaline earths (Ca)9-11 and transition
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metals (Fe),12 can significantly improve the pyrolysis and gasification reactivity of carbon materials, which is
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partially due to catalytic effect on chemical structure of char in pyrolysis process. Therefore, investigating how a
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catalyst would affect coal pyrolysis behavior and char structure evolution is fundamentally important for coal
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clean utilization technologies.
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In the past decades, considerable works have been done on carbon materials, such as soot, coal and biomass,
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by using different experiment apparatuses combined with Raman spectroscopy analytical technique. Li13-15 and his
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coworkers worked on Victorian brown coal using fluidized-bed/fixed reactor and found correlations between char
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structure and pyrolysis/gasification behaviors. Effect of bio-char structure on its gasification reactivity was also
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studied by using a novel quartz reactor and the results showed that the structure of bio-char played a more
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dominant role in the char intrinsic combustion reactivity.16 Thermo gravity analysis (TGA) combined with Raman
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spectroscopy was applied in investigation of effect of char structure on combustion reactivity and the results
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showed that the increase of char microstructural order under heat treatment could be characterized by Raman
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parameters and the combustion reactivity of the chars from demineralized coals was found to have good
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correlations with band area ratios.17 A gas-fired drum pyrolyser18 and drop tube furnace (DTF)19 were also been
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used as experiment apparatuses to study the evolution of biomass/coal char structure.
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Numerous analytical techniques, such as X-ray diffraction (XRD),20, 25-29
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Fourier transform infrared
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spectroscopy (FTIR),22-24 Raman spectroscopy
and transmission electron microscopy (TEM),19, 30 have been
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used to characterize the evolution of char structure, and good correlations between analytical parameters and char
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structure have been established. XRD technique provides information about stacking structure of aromatic layers
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as well as a size of layers, while TEM illustrates the change of carbon crystal structure. FTIR spectroscopy is used
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to record the chemical information such as C-H bond of aromatic/aliphatic and oxygen-containing groups, but
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some useful information such as molecular structure is still unachievable by FTIR.31 For carbon materials,
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however, Raman spectroscopy is a more suitable technique to illustrate the carbon structure for its sensitive not
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only to crystal structures but also to molecular structures.27
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However, the off-line data collected from different experiments using Raman spectroscopy analytic technique
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cannot directly reflect the changes of coal structure during heating process;While the in-situ Raman spectroscopy
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can achieve the purpose of reflecting the changes of char structure directly. In-situ Raman spectroscopy has not
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been widely used on coal pyrolysis/gasification but has been developed rapidly on graphene32 and other research
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areas.33 In this work, in-situ Raman spectroscopy was used to investigate the catalytic pyrolysis process of a
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Chinese bituminous coal under isothermal heating condition. Three different catalysts, Fe2O3, Ca(OH)2 and
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K2CO3, were chosen in the experiments. A fixed-bed reactor and TGA were also used to characterize the
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microstructure changes and gasification reactivity of char derived from coal pyrolysis. The objective was to apply
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in-situ Raman spectroscopy to characterize the evolution of coal char microstructure directly under different
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temperature in heating process and to investigate the correlation between char chemical structure and pyrolysis
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behavior as well as the gasification reactivity of char.
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2 Experimental
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2.1 Materials
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Raw materials used in the study were a Chinese bituminous coal named Shenfu coal (SF) and three kinds of
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catalysts (K2CO3, Ca(OH)2 and Fe2O3). In this study, all catalysts, including K2CO3 (purity >99.0%), Ca(OH)2
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(purity >99.0%), and Fe2O3 (purity >99.0%), were obtained from Sinopharm Chemical Regent Co., Ltd. Before
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experiments, the raw coal was dried at 105℃ under N2 atmosphere for 24 h and then pulverized and sieved to
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obtain a fraction sample of particle sizes range from 80 to 120 µm. The characteristic analysis data of coal are
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summarized in Table 1 and Table 2.
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The catalyst loading was 10 wt% in this study, 6 which is the weight percent of the metal atoms referenced to
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the amount of dry coal. The method of catalyst loading was a solution impregnation method. The procedure of
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impregnating was as follows: a certain amount of catalyst powders were completely dissolved in 100 ml of
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deionized water to form solution, and then 10 g sample was added into the solution; this mixture was stirred at
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70–80℃ under N2 atmosphere using a magnetic stirrer until the liquid was transformed into a thickened mass.
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Finally, this thickened mass was dried at 105 ℃ in a vacuum oven for 24 h. The dried samples were ground,
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mixed uniformly, and sieved to a size range between 80 - 120 µm before experiments. The samples with different
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catalysts were denoted as SF-Fe, SF-Ca and SF-K, respectively.
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2.2 Product gas release measurement
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A fixed-bed reactor6 was used to pyrolyze coal samples in this study. The system is primarily composed of
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four parts: gas feeding, reactor, controlling units, and analysis units. The reactor (0.05 m i.d. and 1.0 m height) is
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made of a special heat-resistant Inconel 625 alloy, designed to maintain up to 1223 K and 6 MPa. Metal supports
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and quartz sand were first added to the reactor, followed by an alundum tube (50 cm height), and 5 g samples in
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each run were placed in the middle area of the reactor. With the use of quartz and the alundum tube, the samples
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were not in direct contact with the metal tube, avoiding catalytic effect of the metal tube on the pyrolysis of coal
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samples.
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The furnace was heated at a rate of 25 K/min until it reached to predetermined temperature. Meanwhile, the
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flow rate of outlet gas was measured by a flow meter, and the major gaseous products, such as methane, hydrogen,
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carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, were quantitatively determined using an online non-dispersive infrared flue
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gas analyzer (Gasboard-3100). At the end of each experiment, pure N2 was purged into the reactor until the reactor
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was cooled to room temperature. The remaining chars were collected for further analysis. Each experiment was
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repeated at least three times.
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2.3 Reactivity measurement in TGA
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The reactivity of char reacting with CO2 was measured using a TGA (made by NETZSCH, STA449F3
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Jupiter). The sample (about 15 mg) was placed in an alumina crucible and heated at the rate of 25 K/min to 105℃
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and held for 30 min to drive off the moisture in sample; then heated at the rate of 25 K/min to 1000℃ under a
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stream of N2. Once the temperature reached to predetermined temperature, gasification started isothermally at
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atmospheric pressure by sweeping CO2 into the reactor. The final mass was then taken as the mass of ash. The
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reactivity index (Rs) of char was calculated using the following equation: 34
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where ߬.ହ is the time required for the conversion to reach 50%.
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2.4 In-situ Raman spectroscopy measurement
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The evolution of char structure in pyrolysis was measured by an in situ Raman spectroscopy system. The
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system is mainly composed of four parts: a Renishaw inVia Raman spectrometer, a heating stage (TS1500,
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Linkam), a temperature controller and an online computer system gathering sample spectrogram during different
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reaction phases continuously. The schematic diagram of the in-situ Raman spectroscopy system is shown in Fig. 1.
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About 2 mg of corresponding sample was placed on the center surface of heating stage which was heated at 25
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K/min to 105 ℃ and held for 30 mins to drive off the moisture in sample. Then the system was heated at the rate
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of 25 K/min to prescribed temperature (800 ℃) under a continuous nitrogen flow of 100 mL/min. The Raman
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signal was collected at 20 ℃, 200 ℃, 400 ℃, 500 ℃, 600 ℃ and 800 ℃, respectively. The ex-situ data
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(spectra of chars derived from pyrolysis at different temperatures) were also collected as a comparison.
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A microscope equipped with a 50*lens was used to focus the excitation laser beam (514.5 nm exciting line of
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a Spectra Physics Ar-laser) on sample and to collect the Raman signal in the backscattered direction. The beam
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was controlled to reach on the surface of char particles with a final laser power of ~2 mW and a spot diameter of 1
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µm. The laser spot was much larger than the size of carbon micro-crystallites, ensuring the collection of the
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average information from a large number of the micro-crystallites of char. The spectra were recorded in the
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wavenumber range of 1000–1800 cm-1 covering the first-order region. The acquisition time for each spectrum was
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30 s. For the accuracy of experimental results, each experiment was repeated three times as well.
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3 Results and discussion
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3.1 Product gases release behavior
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Release behavior of main product gases were investigated in a fixed-bed reactor with an online non
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dispersive infrared flue gas analyzer (Cube, Gasboard-3100) which can record the percentage change of gases
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every second, and then the formation rates of main gases can be calculated. Fig. 2 presents the formation rates of
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main gases of the four samples under the same pyrolysis conditions.
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Compared to raw coal, the catalysts-loading samples show high pyrolysis reactivity. It is found that the main
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gases released in pyrolysis are CO, CO2, CH4 and H2, and the devolatilization does not start until the temperature
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reached to 300 ℃. CO2 and CO release firstly followed by CH4, CnHm and H2, which indicates that oxygen
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containing functional groups crack first to produce CO2 and CO and then the aromatic and aliphatic groups crack
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at higher temperature to produce CH4, CnHm and H2, which is consistent with those literatures.24, 35, 36 The oxygen
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containing functional groups usually contain C=O groups in esters, quinones, carboxylic acids and carbonyl
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compounds. At low temperature, CO and CO2 are mainly derived from the decomposition of carboxylic acids and
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carboxyl compounds. At high temperature, the more stable oxygen-contained groups such as C=O groups in esters
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and quinones decompose with the release of CO and CO2.37 When the temperature rises up to 400℃, a large
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amount of H2 with a few of CH4 and CnHm appear. It can be seen in Fig. 2a that H2 shows high formation rate, a
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wide curve peak starts at approximate 400 ℃ and reaches maximum at 800 ℃. For SF-Fe sample, the curve
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peak of H2 formation rate shows a wider peak width indicating high value of total H2 yield than SF sample (Fig.
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2b). H2 formation rates of SF-Ca and SF-K sample are enhanced quickly and reach maximum values at the
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temperature below 700 ℃ (Fig. 2c and Fig. 2d), which means a better catalytic effect of Ca/K-based catalyst than
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Fe2O3. H2 derives from the decomposition of aromatic structures and heterocyclic compounds at high
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temperature.3 The CH4 formation rate curves show highly similarity for the four samples and start at about 400 ℃
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and then reach a maximum at temperature between 400 ℃ and 500 ℃.
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It is obvious that the pyrolysis process is divided into two stages and the second stage starts at the
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temperature varied from approximate 600 ℃ to 700 ℃, and the gas formation rate is enhanced again. Fig. 2b
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and Fig. 2c show that the second stage is extremely enhanced by catalysts and the Ca-based catalyst has a greater
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catalytic effect than a Fe-based catalyst for H2 and CO production. The CO2 formation rate is enhanced relative to
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that for the other catalyst-impregnated samples while the CO formation is inhibited and there is nearly no CO
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released at the first stage, which may be caused by the high content of carbonate in the initial time. The probable
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reactions are as follows: 6
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K2CO3+C-O→K2O2-C+CO2
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where K2O2-C is an intermediate produced at low temperature.
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For SF-Ca and SF-Fe sample, CO formation rate is dramatically enhanced at the second stage, which is
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probably caused by the improved decomposition of esters and quinones under the effect of Ca/Fe- based catalysts.
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3.2 In-situ Raman spectroscopy study
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Fig. 3 shows the baseline-corrected Raman spectra of samples gathered at different temperatures. It can be
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found that the Raman intensity decreases with increasing temperature for all samples and there are two
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characteristic peaks at 1350 cm-1 (D band or “defect” band) and 1580 cm-1 (G band or “Graphite” band) in each
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spectrum. The intensity of G band is stronger than that of D band. The variations of G and D bands intensity
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reflect the change of char structure in pyrolysis process. It is reported that both Raman scattering ability and the
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light absorptivity of the samples can affect Raman intensity,38 and the structural change affects the light
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absorptivity.
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Furthermore, for getting more spectral information such as peak position, the full width at half maximum
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(FWHM) and integrated area (I) of each band and better understanding of char structure evolution in pyrolysis
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experiments, a curve fitting software, Origin8.5/Peak Fitting Module, was used to resolve Raman spectra into 4
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Lorentzian bands (G, D1, D2 and D4) and 1 Gaussian band (D3 band) (Fig. 4). The D1 band is commonly called
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the defect band and appears at ~ 1350 cm-1 and can be attributed to the in-plane imperfections such as defects and
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heteroatoms and corresponds to a graphitic lattice vibration mode with A1g symmetry.27, 39, 40 The D2 band at
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~1620 cm-1 is always appearing as a shoulder on the G band, which represents the vibration mode of disordered
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graphitic lattices and corresponds to a graphitic lattice mode with E2g symmetry.25 41 The D3 band, at ~ 1500 cm-1,
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is suggested to originate from a sp2 band form of amorphous carbon including organic molecules and fragments
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of functional groups26 and the D4 band at ~ 1200 cm-1 is still under debate for its attribution and is tentatively
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attributed to sp2-sp3 bonds or C–C and C=C stretching vibrations of polyene-like structures.27, 42, 43 The G band or
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‘‘Graphite’’ band (~ 1580 cm-1) corresponds to an ideal graphitic lattice vibration mode with E2g symmetry.25, 44
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3.2.1 FWHM and peak position of bands
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Fig. 4 shows curve-fitted results of SF coal in the first-order region at room temperature. It provides typical
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information about the microstructure of SF bituminous coal. The raw spectrum in the first-order region has two
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obvious bands at ~1350 cm-1 and ~1580 cm-1. It can be found that the G and D2 band are sharp and have narrow
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FWHM, while the D1, D3 and D4 band have wider FWHM indicating the poor order of SF coal.
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The spectral parameters, peak position and FWHM, have been widely studied for characterizing the structure
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of carbon materials and good correlation between Raman spectral parameters and the degree of carbon structure
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order has been discovered.45-47 The variations of D1 and G band FWHM and position with the increasing
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temperature in pyrolysis process are shown in Fig. 5
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The results show that the D1 band FWHM of the four samples increase with increasing temperature, while
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the G band FWHM increases initially and then decreases at 600 ℃. The D1 band FWHM of SF-Fe has the
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maximum increase range and increases from 172 cm-1 at 20℃ to 220 cm-1 at 800 ℃, while the D1 band FWHM
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of SF increases from 161 cm-1 at 20 ℃ to 185 cm-1 at 800 ℃. Fig. 5b reveals that the crystalline components
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increase at first stage and decrease at second stage and the final values of G bands FWHM indicate that the carbon
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structure order decreases at high temperature, which may be caused by the thermal crack of carbon at high
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temperature. The wider G bands FWHM of SF-Ca and SF-K samples also suggest that the Ca/K-based catalysts
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play an important role in cracking carbon at high temperature.
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Fig. 5c shows that D1 band positions of all samples decrease with increasing temperature reflecting the
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fracture of large aromatic ring systems and the formation of heteroatom groups, which is consistent with Fig. 5a.
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The different D1 band positions of four samples in initial time indicate that the catalyst loading process at 105 ℃
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has influence on char structure. The G band positions are shift to low wavenumber with the increase of
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temperature as shown in Fig 5d.
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The band position and band FWHM were often used to characterize char structure order.48 However, because
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Raman measurements only yield relative spectra, the band parameters, particularly the FWHMs, depend to some
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extent on the recorded intensities (i.e. count points) of each spectrum.49 Fig. 5 shows that both band position and
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FWHM vary with temperature and parameters of different chars have no obvious trend. So simply using band
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position or FWHM is not enough to represent the evolution of char structure. The band area ratio, including D1,
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D2, D3 and D4 band to G band (denoted as ID1/IG, ID2/IG, ID3/IG, ID4/IG) and G band to the integrated area (denoted
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as IG/IAll), is a parameter combined two parameters and is widely used to characterize the char structure.
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3.2.2 Band area ratios
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The results of band area ratios variation with increasing temperature are showed in Fig. 6. It can be seen that
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ID1/IG, ID3/IG and ID4/IG increase with increasing temperature significantly while ID2/IG has a decrease trend. As
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reported by Tuinstra in 1970s,50 the ratio ID1/IG is inversely proportional to the microcrystalline planar size, so the
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increase of ID1/IG with increasing temperature represents the decrease of the graphitic microcrystalline planar size,
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as shown in Fig. 6a. It is also can be found that the ID1/IG of SF-Ca and SF-K samples are higher than that of
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SF-Fe and SF samples at high temperature indicating considerable effect of Ca and K on cracking the graphitic
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microcrystalline planar. It is noted that the ID1/IG ratio as well as ID3/IG and ID4/IG of SF-Fe is lower than that of SF
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sample, which may be caused by the comprehensive effects of devolatilization and catalytic. In the
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devolatilization process, the char structure is condensed caused by the release of volatile, thus leading the decrease
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of ID1/IG.17 Meanwhile, the catalyst reacts with carbon with the cracking of the carbon structure leading the
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increase of ID1/IG. For SF-Fe sample, the comprehensive effects of Fe2O3 leading the lower ID1/IG than that of SF.
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The ID2/IG shows an opposite trend that decreases with increasing temperature as shown in Fig. 6b. As stated
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above, the D2 band represents the disordered graphitic lattices at the surface of graphitic crystal. In pyrolysis
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process, those surface structures are broken leading the diminishing of ID2/IG value. The obviously different ID2/IG
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ratios of four samples in initial time suggest that catalyst loading process at 105 ℃ also has significantly impact
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on the surface structures of coal.
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The evolution of the amorphous carbon structure of samples with increasing temperature can be
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characterized by ID3/IG ratio as shown in Fig. 6c. Similar trends of ID3/IG ratio curves are observed in Fig. 6c
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indicating the increase of amorphous carbon structure. As temperature rising, the ID4/IG ratios increase
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simultaneously (Fig. 6d), which is caused by the cracking of larger aromatic rings. The high ID4/IG ratio is
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attributed to the abundance of sp3 or sp2–sp3 mixed structures. It can be found that the SF sample has the highest
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value of ID4/IG ratio at high temperature, which may be caused by the less consumption of carbon and
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oxygen-contained groups in initial time as reported by Chabalala.51
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Fig. 6e shows the variations of IG/IAll ratios of four samples with increasing temperature. For samples of SF
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and SF-Fe, the IG/IAll ratios increase firstly and then decrease, while the IG/IAll ratios of SF-Ca and SF-K samples
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decrease immediately. But the final values of IG/IAll ratios are lower than that in initial time indicating the reducing
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of graphite structure in char. Combined with the results in Fig. 5, it can be inferred that the degree of char
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structure at high temperature is lower than that at normal temperature and catalysts have effects on carbon
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cracking, thus making the catalyst-loading samples obtain lower degree of carbon structure order than raw coal.
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The catalytic effects of the three catalysts can be ranked as K2CO3>Ca(OH)2>Fe2O3.
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3.2.3 Ex-situ Raman spectra
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For comparison, the spectra of chars prepared ex-situ at different temperatures were measured. The results
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(800 ℃ for instance) of in-situ and ex situ spectra are shown in Fig.7. It can be found that ex-situ spectra of all
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samples are different from in-situ spectra significantly. Raman intensities of ex-situ spectra are higher than of
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in-situ spectra for the reason of chemical structural change at high temperature. G and D band position of in-situ
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spectra are shift to low wavenumber meaning the fracture of char structure. For getting more information about
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char structural change, band area ratios of ID1/IG and IG/IAll variations with temperatures are shown in Fig. 8. The
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trends of band area ratios of ID2/IG, ID3/IG, ID4/IG are similar to that of ID1/IG and not shown here.
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Fig. 8 shows that ID1/IG increases and IG/IAll decreases with increase temperature, which means that all chars
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transformed to disordered structure. Compared with in-situ results in Fig. 6, it can be found that ID1/IG ratios are
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lower and IG/IAll ratios are higher than that of in-situ spectra. In heating process, highly ordered char structure is
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partially thermal cracked making char structure order decrease, and the reactions between catalyst and carbon also
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make ordered char structure decrease. Therefore, ID1/IG and IG/IAll ratios of ex-situ spectra at the same condition
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3.3 Relationship between Raman parameters and char reactivity
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The gasification reactivities of four different chars derived from pyrolysis experiments are shown in Fig. 9.
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Fig. 9a shows the variations of char conversion with gasification time and Fig. 9b shows the reactivity indexes of
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different samples. It is obvious that the SF-K char has the highest reactivity followed by SF-Ca and SF-Fe chars
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and the SF char has the lowest reactivity, which is consistent with the results of in-situ Raman spectroscopy.
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In catalytic gasification process, a part of catalyst combines with carbon and transforms to active
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intermediate which would react with CO2 in the follow step. Through this transformation, the catalyst affects the
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evolution of char structure and further affects the gasification reactivity of char. Besides, the true densities of chars
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have been measured and the results are shown in Fig. 10. True density refers to the density of solid matter after
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removing the internal pore or space between particles and is connected to porosity and represents the physical structure
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of char. It can be found that true densities of chars with catalysts are higher than that of non-catalyst because of the
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release of more volatiles. SF-Ca char and SF-Fe char, which have higher true densities compared to SF char, have
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higher reactivities. It can be inferred that the physical structure is not the main factor influencing on the reactivity
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of char and the different reactivity is attributed to the chemical characteristics.
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The relationship between IG/IAll ratio at 800 ℃ and reactivity index of char is shown in Fig. 11. It can be
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the reactivity of char decrease linearly. The good correlation confirms that the strong connection between char
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structure reflected by the in-situ Raman spectra and gasification reactivity. Therefore, the reactivity of different
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In-situ Raman spectroscopy was used in this work for better understanding the evolution of char structure
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with increasing temperature directly and clarification of catalytic effects of different catalysts on pyrolysis of a
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bituminous coal. The conclusions were achieved as follows:
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(1) The main product gases emission behaviors of different samples were studied in a fixed-bed reactor. The
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results showed that CO2 and CO released first at the temperature above 300 ℃ followed by CH4, H2
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and CnHm at the temperature above 400 ℃. With the addition of catalyst, the pyrolysis reactivity was
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enhanced. The formation rates curves of main gases suggested that the pyrolysis process presented two
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(2) Raman spectra of four samples at different temperatures were used to characterize the evolution of char
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structure during pyrolysis. The increased D1 and G band FWHM, ID1/IG, ID3/IG and ID4/IG as well as the
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decreased D1 and G band positions and IG/IAll at high temperature indicated the decrease of the carbon
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structure order degree. With the addition of catalysts, the char obtained lower degree of carbon structure
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than that of raw coal. The rank of the three catalysts is K2CO3>Ca(OH)2>Fe2O3.
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(3) Good correlation between IG/IAll ratios and reactivity indexes of chars derived from pyrolysis was found.
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With the increase of IG/IAll ratio, the reactivity of char decreased linearly. Therefore, the in-situ Raman
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Acknowledgements This work is partially supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant 21176078).
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Figure captions Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of in-situ Raman spectroscopy Fig. 2. Gas formation rates of four samples Fig. 3. Baseline-corrected Raman spectra of four samples at different temperatures. Fig. 4. Curve-fitting for SF coal of Raman spectra in the first-order region. Fig. 5. Variations of D1 and G band FWHM and position with increasing temperature Fig. 6. Variations of band area ratio with increasing temperature Fig. 7. Baseline-corrected Raman spectra of ex-situ and in-situ at 800℃. Fig. 8. Band area ratios of chars ex-situ prepared at different temperatures Fig. 9. a: Variations of char conversion with gasification time; b: Reactivity indexes of different chars Fig. 10. True densities of coal and chars prepared at 800℃ Fig. 11. Correlation between reactivity index and band area ratio of IG/IAll
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Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of in-situ Raman spectroscopy
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Fig. 3. Baseline-corrected Raman spectra of four samples at different temperatures.
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Fig. 5. Variations of D1 and G band FWHM and position with increasing temperature, a: D1 band FWHM; b: G band FWHM: c: D1 band position; d: G band position
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Table 1 Proximate analysis and ultimate analysis of SF coal Proximate analysis wd /%
Ultimate analysis wd /%
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V
FC
A
C
H
O
N
S
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58.65
8.06
74.20
4.21
11.93
0.97
0.63
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Table 2 Ash compositions of SF coal Constituent
Sample SF
w/%
Al2O3
CaO
Fe2O3
SiO2
SO3
NaO
K2 O
MgO
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13.85
11.78
44.52
6.53
1.89
1.35
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