Combustion characteristics of biomass in SouthEast Asia
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Abstract
Gas emission during combustion of mixed tropical wood, bamboo, oil palm trunk, acacia, and rubber wood have been investigated by using TG-MS in presence of oxygen as well as FTIR. The weight decreasing profiles and the gas formation rates of oil palm trunk was significantly different among the samples although their elemental composition was almost the same from biomass samples. It was found that H(2)O is the main product formed for all samples. The evolving rates of the gaseous products during the combustion and infrared spectrums such as CO, H(2)O, CO(2), CH(4) and COOH(+) were found. The DTG curves spectrums for biomass present four overlapping peaks.
Keywords
Thermal behavior, Combustion, Biomass, South East Asia, Carbon Dioxide, TG-MS
Divisions
fac_eng
Funders
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Malaysia
Publication Title
Biomass and Bioenergy
Volume
35
Issue
9
Publisher
Elsevier
Additional Information
Univ Malaya, Dept Chem Engn, Fac Engn, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia