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Record W2305146149 · doi:10.14288/1.0058838

Gasification of sawdust in a fluidized bed

2010· article· en· W2305146149 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Fon-Yun Shake

Bibliographic record

VenuecIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicThermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSawdustFluidized bedWaste managementEnvironmental scienceProcess engineeringPulp and paper industryEngineering

Abstract

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Hemlock sawdust with an average size of 0.67 mm and moisture content 5% was gasified in a 7.6 cm diameter fluidized bed with four different fluidizing media, namely, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, air and a mixture of steam and nitrogen. The static bed height was 20 cm and the bed material was 0.55 mm diameter Ottawa sand. The bed was operated at 1 - 1.5 times the minimum fluidization velocity. The major objective of the present study was to examine the quality of the gas produced with the different gasifying media as a function of the reactor temperature. Due to the difficulty in controlling the solid feedrate, it was not possible to maintain the gas/dry solid ratio (w/w) constant for runs using a particular fluidizing medium. The dry solid feedrate varied from 0.03 to 0.24 g/s, and for most runs, it was in the vicinity of 0.1 g/s. Both production rate and quality of the gas generally increased with temperature and were very sensitive to the type of fluidizing medium used. For nitrogen pyrolysis, the net gas heating value increases from 11.7 to 13.7 MJ/std.m³ when the temperature is increased from 410 to 690°C. Addition of steam to nitrogen produced gases of heating values 6.5 to 14.6 MJ/std.m³ on a nitrogen free basis, as temperature increased from 420 to 600°C. Carbon dioxide pyrolysis produces a gas with heating value-3.68-12.78 MJ/std.m³ between the temperature range 420-517°C. In contrast to the above systems, only low-Btu gas is produced with air gasification between 440 and 670°C. The calorific value of the raw gas produced at 670°C is 1.35 MJ/std.m³.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.155
Teacher spread0.150 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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