ASSESSMENT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF MICROWAVE BIOMASS TORREFACTION USING THE HEAT OF AN EXOTHERMIC DECOMPOSITION REACTION

Numerical and natural experiments have been used to show the possibility of implementing microwave torrefaction of biomass (peat and wood) with particles of carbon fi ller (petroleum coke and graphite) playing simultaneously the role of a microwave radiation absorber and a thermal ballast ensuring the controllability of the process temperature regime occurring with heat release. In this case, part of the heat required for maintaining the working temperature in the process of torrefaction is supplied from an exothermic reaction of biomass decomposition.
Numerical and natural experiments have been used to show the possibility of implementing microwave torrefaction of biomass (peat and wood) with particles of carbon fi ller (petroleum coke and graphite) playing simultaneously the role of a microwave radiation absorber and a thermal ballast ensuring the controllability of the process temperature regime occurring with heat release. In this case, part of the heat required for maintaining the working temperature in the process of torrefaction is supplied from an exothermic reaction of biomass decomposition.
Author:  M. A. Brich, N. M. Gorbachev, I. A. Koznacheev, D. S. Makarenko
Keywords:  torrefaction, pyrolysis, biomass, microwave radiation, exothermic reaction, modeling, experiment.
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