A model of wood flash pyrolysis in fluidized bed reactor

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Zhongyang Luo, Shurong Wang and Kefa Cen

Renewable Energy, 2005, vol. 30, issue 3, pages 377-392

Abstract: With a view of exploiting renewable biomass energy as a highly efficient and clean energy, liquid fuel from biomass pyrolysis, called bio-oil, is expected to play a major role in future energy supply. At present, fluidized bed technology appears to have maximum potential in producing high-quality bio-oil. A model of wood pyrolysis in a fluidized bed reactor has been developed. The effect of main operation parameters on wood pyrolysis product distribution was well simulated. The model shows that reaction temperature plays a major important role in wood pyrolysis. And a good agreement between experimental and theoretical results was obtained. It was shown that particles less than 500 μm could achieve a high heating-up rate to meet flash pyrolysis demand.

Keywords: Wood; Pyrolysis; Model; Fluidized bed reactor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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