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Comparison of CO2 gasification reactivity and kinetics: petcoke, biomass and high ash coal

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It is desirable to exploit biomass energy along with coal and petcoke through gasification, and understanding the differences between petroleum coke (petcoke), coal and biomass gasification behaviour becomes very essential. Consequently, present investigation compares gasification components of petcoke, sawdust and high ash coal with their physico-chemical properties under isothermal conditions in CO2 atmosphere in the temperature range of 1173–1623 K. Physico-chemical characterisation includes proximate and ultimate analyses, porous structure analysis by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area from nitrogen (N2) adsorption isotherm, ash composition analysis and ash fusion temperature. The effects of temperature and nature of different solid fuels on gasification reactivity have been discussed. Gasification kinetics has been investigated using two nth-order kinetic models, such as homogeneous model (HM) and shrinking core model (SCM). Influence of diffusion resistance on gasification behaviour of different solid fuels is also reported. Thus, the present study will be helpful to realise the effects of high ash in gasification behaviour as well as in designing and modelling of the suitable gasifier and to establish optimum gasification conditions for petcoke, biomass and high ash coal.

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The authors are thankful to the Director, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, for allowing the publication of this paper.

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The authors received financial support from the CSIR (Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India), New Delhi, through the FBR Project (MLP-75/18-19) under Chemical Theme.

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    Neelam Kumari, Sujan Saha, Gajanan Sahu, Vishal Chauhan, Rupak Roy, Sudipta Datta & Prakash D. Chavan

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Kumari, N., Saha, S., Sahu, G. et al. Comparison of CO2 gasification reactivity and kinetics: petcoke, biomass and high ash coal. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 12, 2277–2290 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-00882-z

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