Modelagem e simulação de pirolise e secagem de biomassa em um gaseificador de leito movente contracorrente

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1996

RESUMO

In this work is proposed a two-dimensional model to simulate the heating, drying and pyrolysis stages of a biomass particle, which was applied to a steady-state, one-dimensional simulation program of a countercourrent fixed bed gasifier, available in the literature. The models developed for the heating, drying, pyrolysis, gasification and combustion stages were based on the basic equations of mass and energy conservation. The obtained results were compared with experimental data. From the temperature and concentration profiles simulated along the gasifier bed height and through the particle it was possible to identify and determine the extension of these regions in the gasifier. The height occupied by the heating, drying and pyrolysis stages, which is usually assumed as negligible or with a reduced extension in the one dimensional models, is shown to be much larger in the two-dimensional model, corresponding to about three-fourths of the bed height. The influence on the gasifier performance of some characteristic operational parameters, such as the biomass particle moisture and diameter, and of properties, as the charcoal thermal conductivity and the enthalpy of pyrolysis was evaluated. The temperature and composition profiles, as well as the overall cold efficiency obtained from the simulation, presented results under the avaiabie experimental data. An analysis of these results is presented

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gaseificadores - simulação (computadores) energia de biomassa - simulação (computadores) pirolise - simulação (computadores)

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