Jones, JM, Saddawi, A, Dooley, B et al. (5 more authors) (2015) Low Temperature Ignition of Biomass. Fuel Processing Technology, 134. 372 - 377. ISSN 0378-3820
Abstract
Biomass is an especially reactive fuel. There have been large increases in the transportation and utilisation of biomass fuels over the past 10 years and this has raised concerns over its safe handling and utilisation. Fires, and sometimes explosions, are a risk during all stages of fuel production as well as during the handling and utilisation of the product. This paper presents a method for assessing ignition risk and provides a ranking of relative risk of ignition of biomass fuels. Tests involved single particle measurements, thermal analysis, dust layer and basket ignition tests. In all cases, smouldering combustion was observed, whereby the fuels pyrolyse to produce a black char, which then subsequently ignites. Low temperature pyrolysis kinetics have been utilised to predict ignition delay times at low temperatures. A method for evaluating risk was explored based on the activation energy for pyrolysis and a characteristic temperature from TGA analysis. Here, olive cake, sunflower husk and Miscanthus fall into the high risk category, while the woods, plane, pine, mesquite and red berry juniper, fall into the medium risk category. This method is able to capture the impact of low activation energy for pyrolysis on the increased risk of ignition.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Biomass; ignition; smouldering combustion; spontaneous combustion; self-heating |
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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) > Energy Research Institute (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Biomass & Fossil Fuel Research Alliance . |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2015 14:37 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2019 13:05 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2015.02.019 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.fuproc.2015.02.019 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:85304 |