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Sesame and Broad Bean Stalks: Mixing Characteristics of Chips as a Biomass Fuel for Bubbling Fluidized Bed Combustor

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Published/Copyright: January 11, 2018

Abstract

Mixing and segregation characteristics of biomass particles are of practical importance because the in-bed combustion efficiency of volatile matter affects the vertical location of biomass in bubbling fluidized bed combustor. Sesame and broad bean stalk biomass materials mixed with sand used in this study. The superficial gas velocity, biomass chip length, sand particle size and mass fraction of biomass varied as experimental variables. The mixing and segregation behavior of mixtures were analyzed in terms of mixing index. It was found that the variability in the chip-shape made the sesame chips is quantitatively and qualitatively higher homogeneity and mixedness than the broad bean chips. The optimum overall mixing index for the sesame and the broad bean is around 0.96 and 0.84 at dimensionless superficial gas velocity (U/Umf) of 2.0 (1.40 m/sec) and 2.1 (1.25 m/sec), respectively. It was found that as the mean diameter increased and the sphericity decreased, the mixing quality decreased. The average sand particle size of 371 µm can keep good mixing with biomass chips of both materials, compared with average particle sizes of sand 550 and 700 µm. Increasing the initial biomass mass fraction yields a poor mixing of the investigated biomass stalks.

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Received: 2017-6-29
Revised: 2017-11-1
Accepted: 2017-12-28
Published Online: 2018-1-11

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