1. Thermogravimetric analysis of the co-pyrolysis of a bituminous coal and pulp mill sludge
- Author
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Sergio A. Paniagua, L.F. Calvo, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Carla Escapa, and Marta Otero
- Subjects
Bituminous coal ,Pulp mill ,Thermogravimetric analysis ,Materials science ,Carbonization ,business.industry ,geology.rock_type ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,geology ,Paper mill ,Thermal conversion ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Pulp and paper industry ,complex mixtures ,respiratory tract diseases ,Kinetics ,Paper industry ,Coal ,Char ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Composite material ,Wastes ,business ,Pyrolysis - Abstract
Thermal valorization of organic wastes by co-processing with coal may be a management option for such wastes. In this work, the separate pyrolysis of coal and primary and secondary pulp mill sludge was assessed by thermogravimetric (TG) analysis. Then, under the same experimental conditions, the pyrolysis TG curves of the coal blends with a 10 mass% of either primary or secondary pulp mill sludge were obtained. The corresponding differential thermogravimetry curves made evident that the devolatilization of coal starts at higher temperature and reaches higher char yields than that of primary or secondary paper mill sludge. Under blending, lower devolatilization temperatures and char yields, close to the weighted calculated ones, are observed. Non-isothermal kinetic analysis showed that the Arrhenius activation energy (E) corresponding to the pyrolysis of coal was lower than that corresponding to either L1 or L2. Moreover, lower E than the weighted calculated ones was determined for the co-pyrolysis of the blends.
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- 2015