112011 20240319080949.0 doi 10.3390/en15041479 sideral 127727 ART-2022-127727 eng Zapata, Sebastián Ash Behaviour during Combustion of Agropellets Produced by an Agro-Industry—Part 1: Blends Design and Experimental Tests Results 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Agropellets are presented as a suitable product to be produced in certain agro-industries which could become Integrated Biomass Logistic Centres (IBLC) by taking advantage of its current resources during those periods in which their facilities are underused. Wheat straw and maize stalk were selected to be blended with forestry wood in an agro-industry dedicated to animal feed production. The materials were characterized to assess the quality of the input material. Taking into account the former, different pellets (blends of woody and herbaceous biomass) were produced and tested in a fixed bed reactor in order to study their combustion behaviour. Additionally, several predictive indexes were also calculated to assess sintering and deposition occurrence probability. Ash sintering degree was found to be directly related to composition and highly dependent on Si content. Moreover, an increase of the wood content in the blend did not proportionally imply a higher quality of the final blend, as would be expected. Regarding deposition, due to the high number of factors involved in this phenomenon, it has not been possible to draw clear conclusions. To do this, it was necessary to delve into the deposition mechanisms, which is addressed in the second part of this paper. Thus, despite the appearance of sintering and deposition phenomena, the combustion behaviour was satisfactory in the test carried out. Additionally, it has been demonstrated that agro-industries can act as IBLCs, producing blended pellet for the energy market that aligns with the standard ISO 17225-6. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/727961/EU/Demonstration of innovative integrated biomass logistics centres for the Agro-industry sector in Europe/AGROinLOG This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 727961-AGROinLOG info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 3.2 2022 ENERGY & FUELS 80 / 119 = 0.672 2022 Q3 T3 0.632 2022 Engineering (miscellaneous) 2022 Q1 Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2022 Q2 Energy (miscellaneous) 2022 Q2 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2022 Q2 Fuel Technology 2022 Q2 Control and Optimization 2022 Q2 Energy Engineering and Power Technology 2022 Q2 5.5 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Gómez, Maider Bartolomé, Carmen (orcid)0000-0002-6210-1099 Canalís, Paula Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5037-7047 Royo, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4631-6994 5004 545 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Mecánica Área Ingeniería Mecánica 5004 590 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Mecánica Área Máquinas y Motores Térmi. 15, 4 (2022), 1479 [25 pp.] ENERGIES Energies 1996-1073 895275 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112011/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2730902 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112011/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:112011 articulos driver 2024-03-18-12:53:08 ARTICLE