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The efficient management of waste biomass is an important environmental problem in agricultural countries. Often land-fill is the main disposal route with ramifications including CH 4 release having 21 times greater global warming potential per molecule than CO 2 . Biomasses are considered to be CO 2 -neutral fuels when combusted. Moreover, they are renewable and covered by the renewable obligation scheme and eligible for certificates in the UK. The overall objective of the investigation is to assess the performance of selected biomass and coal co-firing under two different modes of operation, air-staging and fuel-staging with the benefit of reduced-NO x and SO 2 emissions in power plant. The biomasses chosen for the study, shea meal (SM) and cotton stalk (CS) have very different cellulose/lignin compositions and different reported thermal behaviour. A series of experiments have been carried out in a 20 kW, down fired combustor using coal, shea meal-coal and cotton stalk-coal blends under un-staged, airstaged and fuel-staged co-combustion configurations. For air-staging, an optimum value of primary zone stoichiometry SR 1 = 0.9 was found. Keeping it fixed, the shea meal and cotton

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Author

S. Munir; W. Nimmo; B.M. Gibbs

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0960-8524)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)