Fuel and Combustion

Fuel and Combustion

Analitical Study about the Kinetics of Different Processes in Pyrolysis of Lycopodium Dust

Authors
School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The effects of kinetics of drying and pyrolysis processes of organic particles such as lycopodium on analytical models of combustion ofthis type of particlesare studied in this paper.DTG curves are investigatedusing experimental TGA curvesand an analytical model for the kinetics of drying and pyrolysis processes of particlesin combustion phenomena is presented. The results show excellent agreement between this analytical model and experimental results. It is possible toconfidentlyuse the results of thisanalytical model for future analytical models of lycopodium particles.
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