Research Article
Dairy Biomass-Wyoming Coal Blends Fixed Gasification Using Air-Steam for Partial Oxidation
Table 1
Ultimate and proximate analysis on an as received basis.
| Fuel name | Wyoming coal (WYC) | Dairy biomass (DB) | DBWC (90:10) |
| Dry loss (%) | 22.81 | 25.26 | 25.015 | Ash (%) | 5.45 | 14.95 | 14.00 | VM (%) | 34.5 | 46.84 | 45.606 | FC (%) | 37.25 | 12.95 | 15.38 | VMDAF (%) | 48.00 | 78.00 | 74.78 | FCDAF (%) | 52.00 | 22.00 | 25.22 | C (%) | 54.07 | 35.27 | 37.15 | H (%) | 3.44 | 3.1 | 3.13 | N (%) | 0.81 | 1.9 | 1.791 | O (%) | 13.08 | 19.1 | 18.498 | S (%) | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.417 | HHV (kJ/kg) | 21385 | 12844 | 13698 | DAF HHV (kJ/kg) | 29809 | 21482 | 22461 | Dry HHV (kJ/kg) | 27704 | 17185 | 18237 | Empirical formulae | CH0.76 N0.013O0.18S0.003 | CH1.06 N0.047O0.405S0.0045 | CH1.03N0.043O0.39S0.001 | Estimated HHV of VM (kJ/kg)+ | 26607 | 18300 | 18986 |
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+ Estimated using eq. HHVDAF of fuel [12] = HHV of VM * VMDAF + HV of FC * FCDAF; HV of FC = 32765 kJ/kg.
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