Aiming at investigating the role of minerals in evaluating co-firing applications of low rank coals and biomass … materials, agricultural residues characteristic of the Mediterranean countries, one lignite and their blends with biomass … terms of mineralogical, chemical and morphological analyses and the slagging/fouling and agglomeration propensities were …

carrier in a CLC system may be limited by side reactions with fuel ash, or by carryover losses. Therefore, low cost oxygen …

A critical review is presented of moving bed biomass gasifier systems presently commercially available or under …. Catalysed by the EC JOULE and AIR programmes, a rather spectacular increase in interest in biomass gasification technology …

performance observed in applications of fixed-bed conversion of biomass and waste is far from optimal. Mathematical modeling using …

, pine pellets and Douglas fir wood chips is studied. Leaching is used as a pre-treatment process targeted on the elimination … of alkali metals such as K and Na as well as chlorine to reduce/eliminate the ash-related problems during gasification …. The leaching pre-treatment process could affect the producer gas composition toward the lower or higher yield of CO and H2 …

biomass co-firing. The experiments were carried out in a drop-tube furnace and the resulting ash samples were collected. Ts of … fuel blends should be 15% and 50% for straw and sawdust, respectively. SEM analysis indicated that biomass promoted ash …In this study ash Ts (sintering temperature) is proposed as an index to evaluate deposition propensity during coal and …

Biomass ash, generated during the thermal chemical conversion of biomass for energy production, is an industrial by …-product which is often recognized as a solid waste, but there are some useful elements in the biomass ash such as phosphorus, etc …. So through some technology and methods, the biomass ash can be transferred into a useful resource. The paper mainly …