In-situ pyrolysis kinetic analysis and fixed-bed pyrolysis behavior of ex-service wind turbine blades.

After the peak of rapid wind power development, a large amount of wind turbine blades reach/exceed their service life due to aging or damage. These ex-service wind turbine blades (EWTB) will increase the issue of its high-efficient utilization in the future decades. Among several treatment methods, pyrolysis has been considered as a promising solution to separate inorganic fiberglass and make organic epoxy resin (OER) high-value-added converted.

Gasification characteristics and synergistic effects of typical organic solid wastes under CO/steam atmospheres.

Gasification technology is an effective way to achieve efficient, safe, and resourceful disposal of organic solid wastes (OSWs). Due to the complex sources and variable components of the OSWs, the co-disposal is highly essential. Various typical OSWs, including food waste (cooked rice, CR), agricultural waste (rice husk, RH; sugarcane bagasse, SB), and industrial waste (furfural residue, FR), were selected for this study.

(Co-)gasification characteristics and synergistic effect of hydrothermal carbonized solid/liquid products derived from fresh kitchen waste.

Kitchen waste has high moisture and rich organics, which can be transformed into hydrochar by hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) and then used for gasification efficiently. But process water (liquid product from HTC, containing organic compounds) has not been well utilized in the way of thermochemistry. In this study, a scheme of co-gasification of solid and liquid products of kitchen waste HTC process was proposed, and the separate gasification and co-gasification were studied.

The influence of a two-step leaching pretreatment on the steam gasification properties of cornstalk waste.

Knowing the effect of specific alkali and alkali earth metals forms is vital for the high-efficient gasification of biomass. This work developed a two-step leaching method to pretreat cornstalk, dividing the inorganic metals into water-soluble (K, 74 wt%), acid-soluble (Al, Ca, Fe, etc) and insoluble (Si) substances. The water-soluble K was mainly in KCl form, the acid-soluble metals were removed in phosphates and sulfates forms.

Morphological and heat transfer characteristics of biomass briquette during steam gasification process.

The morphological evolution and heat transfer characteristics of biomass briquette greatly affect the directional regulation of target products during steam gasification process. In this work, a visual gasifier with an on-line temperature monitoring system was developed to investigate the coupling relationship between the morphological change and temperature distribution of biomass briquette. The gasification behaviors of biomass briquette at different temperatures and steam concentrations were comprehensively examined and compared.

On-line analysis of the correlation between gasification characteristics and microstructure of woody biowaste after hydrothermal carbonization.

Woody biowaste is a component which is difficult to be converted among multiple solid waste (MSW) during the hydrothermal carbonization (HTC). In this paper, poplar sawdust was pretreated by HTC to study the correlation between microstructure and gasification characteristics. The results showed the fixed carbon and higher calorific value increased from 13.