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Sintering and Fusibility Risks of Pellet Ash from Different Sources at Different Combustion Temperatures
Juan Carlos Contreras-Trejo, Daniel José Vega-Nieva, Maginot Ngangyo Heya, José Angel Prieto-Ruíz, Cynthya Adriana Nava-Berúmen, Artemio Carrillo-Parra
February 27, 2023
Pellets are solid biofuels with a combustion efficiency of 85−90%, low CO2 emissions and costs, great comfort and versatility. However, the ash generated during combustion can present sintering and fusibility, decreasing boiler efficiency and potentially malfunctioning. Ash composition indexes can be useful to predict observed ash sintering and fusion but require further analysis for a variety of feedstocks. The objective of this work was to determine the effect of the mineral composition of pellet ash from 15 biomasses of forest and agro-industrial sources on observed pellet ash slagging using a laboratory test. The chemical composition of pellets and the indexes B, NaK/B, SiP/CaMg and SiPNaK/CaMg at 550 and 1000 °C were determined. Pearson correlation tests were also performed between cumulative percentages of slag at different sieve sizes. The concentrations of CaO ranged from 4.49 to 65.95%, MgO varied from 1.99 to 17.61%, and the SiO2 concentration was between 16.11 and 28.24% and 2.19−56.75% at 550 and 1000 °C, respectively. Pellets of forest origin presented a low risk of slag formation, while those from agro-industrial sources showed a high risk of slag formation. The index SiPNaK/CaMg showed the highest correlation (R2 > 0.75) to observed slagging using the BioSlag test.
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ash, Biomass, pellets, sintering, slag
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Contreras-Trejo JC, Vega-Nieva DJ, Heya MN, Prieto-Ruíz JA, Nava-Berúmen CA, Carrillo-Parra A. Sintering and Fusibility Risks of Pellet Ash from Different Sources at Different Combustion Temperatures. (2023). LAPSE:2023.11665
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Contreras-Trejo JC: Maestría Institucional en Ciencias Agropecuarias y Forestales (MICAF), Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED), Durango 34100, Mexico
Vega-Nieva DJ: Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED), Durango 34120, Mexico [ORCID]
Heya MN: Facultad de Agronomía (FA), Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), Escobedo 66050, Mexico [ORCID]
Prieto-Ruíz JA: Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED), Durango 34120, Mexico
Nava-Berúmen CA: Tecnológico Nacional of México (TecNM), Campus Technological Institute of Valle del Guadiana (ITVG), Villa Montemorelos 34371, Mexico
Carrillo-Parra A: Instituto de Silvicultura e Industria de la Madera (ISIMA), Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED), Durango 34120, Mexico [ORCID]
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Energies
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15
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14
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5026
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2022
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2022-07-09
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1996-1073
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