Self-heating and thermal runaway of biomass – Lab-scale experiments and modeling for conditions resembling power plant mills
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Oxygen deprivation during pyrolysis can exacerbate reactive functional groups, while low-temperature biochars like B600 retain surface tars that initiate thermal runaway.
“Oxygen deprivation during pyrolysis can exacerbate reactive functional groups, while low-temperature biochars like B600 retain surface tars that initiate thermal runaway [39,110,111].”
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The Experimental section (p. unavailable) reports no relevant self-heating during inert-atmosphere pyrolysis. The Introduction (p. unavailable) instead identifies heterogeneous oxidation of solid biomass as the likely ignition pathway under the conditions studied; the Model parameters section lists tars as pyrolysis products, not initiators of thermal runaway. The paper does not address B600 or changes in reactive functional groups. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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- Authors
- Schwarzer, L., Jensen, P. A., Wedel, S., Glarborg, P., Karlström, O., Holm, J. K., & Dam-Johansen, K.
- Affiliations
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
- Åbo Akademi University (FI)
- Ørsted (Denmark) (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Schwarzer, Lars
- Jensen, Peter Arendt
- Venue
- Fuel
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-06
- Volume
- 294
- Pages
- 120281
- ISSN
- 0016-2361 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3133652643
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.abo.fi
- Licence
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- Fuel (publishedVersion)
- Åbo Akademi University Research Portal (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Academy of Finland (321598)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Thermal and Kinetic Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Ocean Engineering › Coal Properties and Utilization
- Keywords
- self-heating, thermal runaway, autoignition, reaction kinetics, heat and mass transfer, oxygen diffusion, sample size effects, pine pellets, wheat straw, sensitivity analysis, scaling
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