title: Kinetic modelling of steam gasification of various woody biomass chars: influence of inorganic elements.
abstract: A study was performed on the influence of wood variability on char steam gasification kinetics. Isothermal experiments were carried out in a thermobalance in chemical regime on various wood chars produced under the same conditions. The samples exhibited large differences of average reaction rate. These differences were linked neither with the biomass species nor age and may be related to the biomass inorganic elements. A modelling approach was developed to give a quantitative insight to these observations. The grain model was used on one biomass of reference for temperatures between 750 and 900 °C and steam partial pressures between 0 and 0.27 bar. The model was applied to the other samples through the addition of an integral parameter specific to each sample. A satisfactory correlation was found between this parameter and the ratio potassium/silicium. This result highlighted the catalytic effect of potassium and inhibitor effect of silicium on the reaction.
authors.affiliation: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble cedex 09, France. capucine_dupont@hotmail.fr
authors.forename: Capucine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dupont
authors.forename: Timothée
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nocquet
authors.forename: José Augusto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Da Costa
authors.forename: Christèle
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Verne-Tournon
mesh_terms: D018533:Biomass; D005740:Gases; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007287:Inorganic Chemicals; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013227:Steam; D014934:Wood
chemical_list: D005740:Gases; D007287:Inorganic Chemicals; D013227:Steam