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Estimation of heats of combustion of biomass from elemental analysis using available electron concepts
Author(s) -
Patel Snehal A.,
Erickson L. E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.260230910
Subject(s) - combustion , biomass (ecology) , straw , work (physics) , heat of combustion , environmental science , renewable resource , carbon fibers , renewable energy , fraction (chemistry) , chemistry , pulp and paper industry , thermodynamics , process engineering , materials science , geology , physics , ecology , engineering , organic chemistry , composite material , inorganic chemistry , oceanography , composite number , biology
The method of Thornton and Dulong's formula for estimating heats of combustion are compared in this work. Heats of combustion predicted by Thornton's method for renewable resources such as wood, straw, and municipal solid wastes are considerably closer to experimentally measured values compared to values predicted by Dulong's formula. Thornton's method states that the heat of combustion is directly proportional to the quantity of oxygen consumed in the combustion process. A method which utilizes the weight fraction carbon on a dry basis and the reluctance degree to predict the heat of combustion of renewable resources is presented.