An Experimental Investigation of Sewage Sludge Gasification in a Fluidized Bed Reactor

Table 1

Sieve distribution and properties of sewage sludge.

	% Total
Particle size (mesh)
>200	3.57
200 < 100	2.30
100 < 40	16.52
40 < 20	38.12
20 < 14	22.04
<14	17.64
Elemental analysis
C (%)	36.2
H (%)	4.5
N (%)	5.6
S (%)	1.1
Cl (%)	0.1
O (%)	14.7
Proximate analysis
Moisture (%)	7.9
Ash (%)	37.9
Volatiles (%)	55.1
Fixed carbon (%)	7.1
Heating value
HHV^1 (MJ/kg)	15.4

1HHV: high heating value.
Except moisture, all values are on dry basis.