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Taccardi, Nicola |
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Kononenko, Denys |
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Petrov, R. H. | Madrid |
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Alshaaer, Mazen | Brussels |
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Bih, L. |
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Casati, R. |
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Muller, Hermance |
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Kočí, Jan | Prague |
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Šuljagić, Marija |
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Kalteremidou, Kalliopi-Artemi | Brussels |
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Azam, Siraj |
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Ospanova, Alyiya |
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Blanpain, Bart |
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Ali, M. A. |
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Popa, V. |
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Rančić, M. |
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Azevedo, Nuno Monteiro |
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Landes, Michael |
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Rignanese, Gian-Marco |
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Govin, Alexandre
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- 2022Effect of different retarders and their combination with superplasticizer on the properties of CSA
- 2021Effect of Citric Acid and Polycarboxylate Superplasticizers (PCE) on Hydration and Rheology of Sulfoaluminate Cement
- 2019Hydration and rheology of sulfoaluminate cements (CSA) in presence of polycarboxylate superplasticizers (PCE) and citric acid
- 2019Combination of superplasticizers with hydroxypropyl guar, effect on cement-paste propertiescitations
- 2018Hydration and rheology of sulfoaluminate-belite cements (SAC) in presence of polycarboxylate superplasticizers (PCE) and citric acid
- 2018Impact of a thin coating layer of calcium aluminate and sulfoaluminate cements on algal biofouling
- 2017Experimental study of self-heating phenomenon at the reactor-scale. Safety assessment of a fixed-bed filled with torrefied wood chips
- 2017Effect of guar gum derivatives combined with superplasticizers on properties of portland cement-pastes
- 2017Combination of guar gum derivatives and superplasticizers, impact on properties of Portland cement-pastes
- 2016Experimental study of self-heating phenomena during torrefaction of spherical wood particles
- 2016Development of treatment to prevent the algal biofouling
- 2016Modification of water retention and rheological properties of fresh state cement-based mortars by guar gum derivativescitations
- 2015Impact of Guar Gum Derivatives on Properties of Freshly-Mixed Cement-Based Mortars
- 2015Effect of the Chemical Composition of Building Materials on Algal Biofouling
- 2015Modification of fresh state properties of Portland cement-based mortars by guar gum derivatives
- 2015Effect of Guar Gum Derivatives on Fresh State Properties of Portland Cement-Based Mortars
- 2014Influence of the chemical composition of mortars on algal biofouling
- 2014Lifetime durability of bio-based composites
- 2014Development of an accelerated test of fungal biodeterioration. Application to calcium aluminate cements
- 2014Synthesis and Fluidization of Wood Powders Application to biofuel production
- 2014Influence of hydroxypropylguars on rheological behavior of cement-based mortarscitations
- 2013NMR investigations of water retention mechanism by cellulose ethers in cement-based materials
- 2012Nuclear magnetic relaxation dispersion investigations of water retention mechanism by cellulose ethers in mortarscitations
- 2010Energy requirement for fine grinding of torrefied woodcitations
- 2009Effect of cellulose ethers on water retention in freshly-mixed mortars
- 2009Effect of torrefaction on grinding energy requirement for thin wood particle production
- 2009Influence of cellulose ether particle size on water retention of freshly-mixed mortars
- 2008Water transport in freshly-mixed mortars containing cellulose ethers
- 2007Study of efflorescence forming process on cementitious materials // Etude du processus de formation des efflorescences sur des matériaux cimentaires
- 2007Structural transformations of bioactive glass 45S5next term with thermal treatmentscitations
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Synthesis and Fluidization of Wood Powders Application to biofuel production
Abstract
Synthesizing fuels from biomass sounds a promising path to reduce the overall green house gases emissions and replace the oil-based fuels. Among the main conversion routes, i.e. biological and thermochemical, the latter presents the advantage of being in the continuation of traditional process engineering, thus more inclined to be rapidly industrialized. Here, we investigate two key points of the process consisting in the transformation of solid wood into suitably sized particles, their transport and injection into an entrained flow gasifier and the Fischer-Tropsch conversion of the resulting syngas in liquid fuel. Because of the very large elasticity of ligno-cellulosic materials, the size reduction by grinding requires too much energy to be economically competitive. In order to increase the wood fragility, and thus decrease the energy consumption, the biomass is preliminarily torrefied (i.e. heated up to 300°C under inert atmosphere). In this section, we present new results correlating the required specific energy, the size of the grid holes used in the knife-mill, the torrefaction intensity and the resulting particle size. For two types of wood (beech for hard wood and spruce for softwood), it is evidenced that the grinding energy decreases exponentially when the particle size increases. Both the prefactor and the characteristic length linearly decrease when the torrefaction becomes more severe. The anisotropic microstructure of ligno-cellulosic materials is the cause of the elongated particles morphology. The poor flowability associated with this particle shape makes the pneumatic transport and injection problematic, which is clearly an obstacle to the industrialization of the process. Indeed, to avoid jamming, larger flow rates of inert gas must be used to convey the particles, with an increasing cost of gas separation at later stages. Here, we present new experimental results showing how flowability is modified by the particles size and shape, which in turn depend on the wood species and the torrefaction intensity. Due to its complex nature, the flowability is characterized in three configurations. The jammed-unjammed threshold is evaluated by shear tests performed on a packed bed. The dense quasistatic flowability is evaluated using a powder rheometer that measures the energy required by a rotating blade to circulate through the bed. The fluidization ability is evaluated at two different scales: in the powder rheometer in presence of an upwards air flow and in a standard fluidization column. Results show that the flowability of torrefied wood particles is very poor and very dependent on the wood species (hardwood or softwood). Due to particles interlocking, the bed is highly porous. This is evidenced by the pressure drop which is about 4 times smaller than expected by the Wu & Yen correlation for compact particles of same size. Also, this interlocking is the cause of an apparent cohesivity, which manifests itself by a channeling tendency and a minimum fluidization velocity about 5 to 10 times larger than expected by the Wu & Yen correlation. The significant difference between spruce and beech flowability is attributed to the particles morphology.