Characterization of Biomass Bottom Ash from an Industrial Scale Fixed-Bed Boiler by Fractionation
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Abstract
It is expected that increasing amounts of energy will be generated from the direct combustion of biomass residues. However, biomass combustion processes are known to produce large amounts of bottom ash, resulting in ash storage and disposal problems. The presence of unburned carbon in some bottom ash suggests its potential for beneficial uses, such as an energy source. This comparative study characterizes two bottom ash samples obtained from an industrial scale fixed-bed boiler. The physical and chemical properties of each bottom ash, as well as their respective particle fractions obtained by sieving, are analyzed and discussed. Analyses included proximate and ultimate analysis, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and bulk density. The percent fixed carbon in the samples was 30% and 50%. The higher heating value (HHV) ranged from 5 - 25 MJ/kg for the ash samples when characterized within fractions. The boiler ash showed that 68 % or more of the energy could be recovered in fractions ? 425 µm for high carbon ash. Low carbon fractions of ash have four times the bulk density compared to the high carbon fractions. By reburning the larger fractions, ash volumes can be decreased by over 50%.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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