Investigation of (co)-combustion kinetics of biomass, coal and municipal solid wastes

Imane Boumanchar; Younes Chhiti; Fatima Ezzahrae M'hamdi Alaoui; Mohamed Elkhouakhi; Abdelaziz Sahibed-Dine; Fouad Bentiss; Charafeddine Jama; Mohammed Bensitel

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.07.033

Investigation of (co)-combustion kinetics of biomass, coal and municipal solid wastes

Waste Manag. 2019 Sep:97:10-18. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.07.033. Epub 2019 Jul 27.

Authors

Imane Boumanchar¹, Younes Chhiti², Fatima Ezzahrae M'hamdi Alaoui³, Mohamed Elkhouakhi⁴, Abdelaziz Sahibed-Dine⁵, Fouad Bentiss⁶, Charafeddine Jama⁷, Mohammed Bensitel⁵

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Catalysis and Corrosion of Materials (LCCM), Chemistry Department, Chouaïb Doukkali University, Po Box 20, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco; Science Engineer Laboratory for Energy (LabSIPE), National School of Applied Sciences, Chouaïb Doukkali University, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco. Electronic address: i.boumanchar@gmail.com.
² Laboratory of Catalysis and Corrosion of Materials (LCCM), Chemistry Department, Chouaïb Doukkali University, Po Box 20, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco; Science Engineer Laboratory for Energy (LabSIPE), National School of Applied Sciences, Chouaïb Doukkali University, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco.
³ Science Engineer Laboratory for Energy (LabSIPE), National School of Applied Sciences, Chouaïb Doukkali University, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco.
⁴ Laboratory of Catalysis and Corrosion of Materials (LCCM), Chemistry Department, Chouaïb Doukkali University, Po Box 20, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco; Innovation Lab for Operations (ILO), Mohamed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco.
⁵ Laboratory of Catalysis and Corrosion of Materials (LCCM), Chemistry Department, Chouaïb Doukkali University, Po Box 20, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco.
⁶ Laboratory of Catalysis and Corrosion of Materials (LCCM), Chemistry Department, Chouaïb Doukkali University, Po Box 20, M-24000 El Jadida, Morocco; Lille University, ENSCL, UMET CNRS UMR 8207, F-59000 Lille, France.
⁷ Lille University, ENSCL, UMET CNRS UMR 8207, F-59000 Lille, France.

PMID: 31447016
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.07.033

Abstract

Investigation of thermal behaviors of biomass waste, biochar, coal, municipal solid waste (MSW) and their mixtures were aimed in the present study using both thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimeter techniques. In fact, this paper intends to interpret the influence of mixtures on activation energy. In this purpose, Coats and Redfern were used. Then, the relative error Δm_error was calculated to quantify the synergism degree. Precisely, it was about 5.34% for biomass/coal, 5.52% for biomass/cardboard, 5.67% for biomass/biochar, 5.93% for biomass/synthetic rubber and 6.05% for biomass/plastic mixtures. This phenomenon was justified by the interaction between C-C bond of biochar, coal and MSW radicals with C-H and C-O bonds of biomass.

Keywords: Activation energy; Coats and Redfern; Combustion; Kinetic analysis; Synergy.

MeSH terms

Biomass
Coal*
Kinetics
Solid Waste*
Thermogravimetry

Substances

Coal
Solid Waste