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Slag Characteristics of Biomass Pellet Fuels with Different Additives to Tobacco-Stalk for Tobacco Curing Heating

by Jianan Wang^1,*, Yikuan Fan², Weidong Duan³, Zhaopeng Song¹

1 College of Tobacco Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450000, China
2China National Tobacco Corporation Henan Provincial Company, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
3 Tobacco Production Department, China Tobacco Henan Industrial Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou, 450000, China

* Corresponding Author: Jianan Wang. Email:

Energy Engineering 2024, 121(11), 3401-3415. https://doi.org/10.32604/ee.2024.055158

Received 19 June 2024; Accepted 14 August 2024; Issue published 21 October 2024

Abstract

Since pure tobacco stalk (TS) biomass pellet fuels tend to slag, five anti-slagging agents were added to the crushed TS to obtain a pellet fuel that could be used in biomass burners to provide heat for tobacco curing. The obtained results revealed that the main component of TS pellet fuel was K₂Si₂O₅. During fuel combustion process, additives generated higher melting point silicate compounds by Al–K, Ca–K, and Ca–K elemental structures to replace single K elemental structure of TS, enhancing the anti-slagging efficiency of the pellet fuel from 21.63% to 78.29% and promoting the precipitation of K, Mg, and Na elements in the slag block. By investigating the anti-slagging mechanism pathways of the additives in TS biomass pellet fuels, altering of the structure of silicate ion group pathway was found to improve anti-slagging effects that met the requirements of production formula.

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