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dc.contributor.authorGao, Xiangpeng
dc.contributor.authorRahim, Usman
dc.contributor.authorChen, Xixia
dc.contributor.authorWu, Hongwei
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-24T05:24:26Z
dc.date.available2017-11-24T05:24:26Z
dc.date.created2017-11-24T04:48:41Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationGao, X. and Rahim, U. and Chen, X. and Wu, H. 2017. Inorganic PM10 emission from the combustion of individual mallee components and whole-tree biomass. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.. 36: pp. 3313-3319.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58204
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.proci.2016.08.072
dc.description.abstract

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd.This contribution reports the emission of inorganic particulate matter (PM) with an aerodynamic diameter <10µm (PM10) from the combustion of both individual mallee components and whole-tree biomass. Three major components of a mallee tree, namely bark, leaf, and wood, were size-reduced to 75-150µm and mixed at a dry mass ratio of 15% bark:35% leaf:50% wood, which is close to the real mallee's composition, to prepare a whole-tree biomass. The three individual mallee components and the whole-tree biomass were combusted in a laboratory-scale drop-tube furnace at 1400°C in air to produce inorganic PM10 for further quantification and characterization. The results demonstrate that, whereas the particle size distributions of the PM10 from the combustion of the bark, leaf and wood components generally follow a bimodal distribution, the yields of PM0.1, PM0.1-1, PM1, PM1-10, PM2.5, and PM10 from the three mallee components are quite different. On the bases of dry biomass and useful energy input, the yields of the PM of various size fractions studied follow a sequence of the bark>the leaf>the wood, consistent with that of the ash contents in the three components. Oppositely, the ash-based yields of PM0.1, PM0.1-1, PM1, PM1-10, PM2.5, and PM10 from the wood are substantially higher than those from the bark and the leaf. No obvious synergetic effect among different mallee components in PM10 emission is observed during the whole-tree biomass combustion, enabling the prediction of the PM10 yield from the whole-tree biomass combustion based on that from the individual mallee components.

dc.publisherCombustion Institute
dc.relation.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1540748916304618
dc.titleInorganic PM10 emission from the combustion of individual mallee components and whole-tree biomass
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume36
dcterms.source.startPage3313
dcterms.source.endPage3319
dcterms.source.issn1540-7489
dcterms.source.titleProceedings of the Combustion Institute.
curtin.departmentDepartment of Chemical Engineering
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