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Thermogravimetry study of pyrolytic characteristics and kinetics of fast-growing Eucalyptus residue Qunpeng Cheng, Meng Jiang, Zhenhua Qin, Shunxi Zhang, Mei Wang, and Jianfen Li Energy Fuels, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b02363 • Publication Date (Web): 20 Nov 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on November 20, 2017
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Thermogravimetry study of pyrolytic characteristics and kinetics of fast-growing
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Eucalyptus residue
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Qunpeng Cheng1, Meng Jiang2, Zhenhua Qin1,Shunxi Zhang1, Mei Wang1,
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Jianfen Li1*
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Wuhan 430073, PR China
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Technology, Wuhan, China
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Abstract
School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University,
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and
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In order to utilize the fast-growing Eucalyptus residue (FGER) for energy application,
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the pyrolysis kinetic of FGER was studied by a new simple DAEM method through
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thermo-gravimetry analysis at different heating rates of 10℃/min, 20℃/min, 30℃
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/min, 40℃/min and 100℃/min from room temperature to 1000℃respectively. The
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results showed that the DAEM could fit the experimental data well. The pyrolysis
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weight loss process of FGER could be divided into four stages. The first and second
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stages attributed to hemicelluloses decomposition located at α= 0-0.1 and α=0.11-0.34
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with activation energy of 117kJ/mol and 155.8 kJ/mol, respectively. It was found that
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cellulose pyrolysis in the third stage, which covered a conversion range of
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α=0.35-0.74 with E=182.9 kJ/mol. The fourth stage represented the tails of DTG
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curve and occurred at high conversion with high activation energy value. The DAEM
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fitted the experiments well in low conversion α
