title: Experimental and kinetic modeling of oxygen-enriched air combustion of paper mill sludge.
abstract: By thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) study, the characteristics of oxygen-enriched air combustion of paper mill sludge were investigated. Experiments on oxidative of paper mill sludge were performed under different atmospheres at 20 degrees C/min. There are two distinct decomposition processes were observed from the obtained thermogravimetric curves. One of them centered on 320-350 degrees C with a weight loss of 50%, the second centered on 780-795 degrees C with a weight of loss 30%. Shift of oxygen concentration have some influences on decomposition processes, and then the processes of paper mill sludge combustion in oxygen-enriched air can be divided into three stages. The kinetic parameters observed by direct non-linear regressions. At the fixed carbon combustion stage, when oxygen concentration from 20 to 80 vol.%, the apparent activation energy is increased from 52.30 to 123.16 kJ/mol, the reaction order of all runs are around 1.
authors.affiliation: Electric Power College, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. kai041@126.com
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiao Qian
authors.initials: XQ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Han Min
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D017745:Incineration / Q000379:methods*; D007220:Industrial Waste; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry*; D010209:Paper; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D010100:Oxygen