Residual moisture in the sewage sludge feed significantly affects the pyrolysis process: Simulation of continuous process in a batch reactor.

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985858:_____/22:00548934 RIV/60461373:22320/22:43924448

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0324977" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0324977</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2021.105387" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jaap.2021.105387</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Residual moisture in the sewage sludge feed significantly affects the pyrolysis process: Simulation of continuous process in a batch reactor.

Original language description

In the experiments presented within this manuscript, we allowed the residual moisture typical for industrially dried sludge (10 wt%) to react within the pyrolysis process by incorporating it into the carrier gas (consisting finally of 70 vol% steam and 30 vol% He). This steam reacted within the pyrolysis process at temperatures 400–800 °C in a fixed-bed reactor. The results were thoroughly compared with the results of a previous study with pure helium atmosphere, within the same experimental setup. When comparing the experiments with and without steam in the carrier gas, a significant difference in the distribution and properties of the products was observed especially at temperatures above 600 °C. The use of steam as a carrier gas (instead of inert gas) resulted in a remarkably higher pyrolysis gas yield. The pyrolysis gas constituted of almost double the content of hydrogen with a decrease in the yield of the sludge-char. Moreover, particular changes in sludge-char properties were observed. Not only the steam enhanced textural properties of the sludge-chars, especially the specific surface area and the total specific pore volume, but it also resulted in a significantly lower content of C, H, N and S and lower heating value of the sludge-char. These parameters can be decisive in case of sludge-char utilization ranging from agronomic through adsorbents to fuel use. Our approach provides a simplified way to better predict the distribution and properties of pyrolysis products in large-scale units. This can be time and money saving and is crucial to make decisions about the applicability of pyrolysis technology to specific sewage sludge products.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20704 - Energy and fuels

Project

<a href="/en/project/QK21020022" target="_blank" >QK21020022: Complex evaluation of the application of sewage sludge in agriculture with respect to emerging pollutants</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis

ISSN

0165-2370

e-ISSN

1873-250X

Volume of the periodical

161

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JAN 2022

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

105387

UT code for WoS article

000729340900003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85120071931