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http://dx.doi.org/10.9713/kcer.2013.51.6.692

Kinetic Analysis of Isothermal Pyrolysis of Korean Refuse Plastic Fuel for Application to Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler  

Park, Kyoung-Il (Power Generation Laboratory, Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO) Research Institute)
Kim, Dong-Won (Power Generation Laboratory, Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO) Research Institute)
Lee, Tae-Hee (Power Generation Laboratory, Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO) Research Institute)
Lee, Jong-Min (Power Generation Laboratory, Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO) Research Institute)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.51, no.6, 2013 , pp. 692-699 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, isothermal (350, 375, 400, 425, 450, 500, $850^{\circ}C$) experiments were carried out using a custom-made thermobalance to analyze the thermal decomposition properties of refuse plastic fuel (RPF), which is to be used as a cofiring fuel with a sub-bituminous coal at commercial circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler in Korea. In isothermal pyrolysis results, no change in the reaction model was observed in the temperature range of $375{\sim}450^{\circ}C$ and it was revealed that the first order chemical reaction (F1) is the most suitable among 12 reaction models. The activation energy shows similar results irrespective of application of reaction model in that the activation energy was 39.44 kcal/mol and 36.96 kcal/mol when using Arrhenius equation and iso-conversional method ($0.5{\leq}X{\leq}0.9$) respectively. Mean-while, the devolatilization time ($t_{dev}$) according to particle size (d) of RPF could be expressed as $t_{dev}=10.38d^{2.88}$ at $850^{\circ}C$, operation temperature of CFB and for even distribution and oxidation of RPF in CFB boiler, we found that the relationship of average dispersion distance (x) and particle size was $x{\leq}1.58d^{1.44}$.
Keywords
Refuse Plastic Fuel (RPF); Isothermal Pyrolysis; Damkohler Number ($D_a$); Thermobalance;
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