Atiku, FA, Lea-Langton, AR, Bartle, KD et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Some Aspects of the Mechanism of Formation of Smoke from the Combustion of Wood. Energy and Fuels, 31 (2). ISSN 0887-0624
Abstract
This paper is concerned with an investigation of the formation of soot from the combustion of some of the primary pyrolysis products formed during pine wood combustion. Comparisons are made between the combustion products of model compounds, furfural for cellulose and eugenol and anisole to represent lignin (and n-decane for comparison) with the smoke emissions from the previously studied combustion of pine wood. These compounds were burned in a diffusion flame burner, and the appearance and composition of the resulting particulate and the adsorbed polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) precursors were studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), mass spectrometry and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS). The reactions leading to soot formation were modeled. It was concluded that wood soot formation proceeded via pyrolytic breakdown followed by a mechanism based on HACA (H-abstraction–C2H2-addition) reactions with the participation of cyclopentadienyl intermediates, while eugenol soot originated predominantly through the CPDyl route. The formation of furfural soot is mainly via HACA.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, American Chemical Society. This document is the unedited author's version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Energy and Fuels, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work, see http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b02639. |
Keywords: | wood; combustion; smoke; mechanism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC R114958 EGZ |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2017 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
Identification Number: | 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b02639 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:110992 |