Emission Abatement at Small-Scale Biomass Combustion Unit with High-Temperature Catalysts

2015 ◽  
pp. 209-222
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Biomass Combustion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Emission Abatement

scholarly journals Pulse Reverse Alloy Plating for Increased Lifetimes for Biocombustors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Xu ◽  
Tim Hall ◽  
Santosh Vijapur ◽  
DAN WANG ◽  
Jennings E. Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Corrosion Resistance ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Base Material ◽  
High Temperature Corrosion ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Biomass Combustion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Low Alloy Steels

Biomass embodies tremendous potential as a renewable energy resource. According to the biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC), biomass energy is renewable, carbon neutral, domestic and technologically mature. In addition, the low cost per BTU of wood chips and pellets relative to fossil fuels makes biomass an attractive thermal energy source. Furthermore, ~7% of global energy consumption comprises small-scale biomass combustion, representing a tremendous market for technologies that facilitate enhanced biomass utilization. However, a major challenge associated with utilization of biomass is its combustion behavior. The moisture content, chemical composition, and combustion efficiency varies depending on the source of biomass. Small scale biomass combustors (Figure 1) which for cost reasons are often constructed of mild or low-alloy steels, during operation are subjected to corrosive environments which include alkali halides (borne, e.g., by fly ash particulates), mineral/halogen acids and water; as well as various others such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides. There is a need to create more efficient, longer lasting, cleaner, and cost effective cookstoves for use in burning biomaterials. The materials used for cookstoves must improve burning efficiency, must be able to operate at higher temperatures, and should be low cost material systems to durably perform in the corrosive environments.Within this context, Faraday Technology Inc. is working on developing low cost and high value corrosion-resistant alloy coatings for existing bio-combustors or lower cost steels with the goal of increasing their functional lifetime, while reducing the component cost. The manufacturing process involves electrodeposition of binary/ternary/quaternary alloys consisting of [Ni/Co]-Cr-[Mo/Fe] onto a low cost substrate and subsequent accelerated high temperature corrosion evaluation. A wide array of electrolytes and processing parameters were evaluated in order to understand these effects on the deposit composition, structure, and high-temperature corrosion resistance properties towards the goal of developing an ideal alloy coating. Specifically, 100 wt% Cr, 7 wt% Co- 93 wt% Cr binary and 15 wt% Ni – 20 wt% Cr – 55 wt% Co (NiCoCr) ternary alloy coatings demonstrated enhanced corrosion resistance when exposed to an aggressive environment (~700°C, 1000 hr, coating surface salted with ~1 mg/cm2 every 100 hours). When compared to the SS base material the Cr/CoCr alloy coatings exhibited effective protection to the substrate and over 10 times lifetime improvement to its base material.

Electrodeposited Inconel and Stellite like Coatings for Improved Corrosion Resistance in Biocombustors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Hall ◽  
Santosh Vijapur ◽  
Jennings E. Taylor ◽  
Jing Xu ◽  
Maria Inman
Keyword(s):  
Corrosion Resistance ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Base Material ◽  
High Temperature Corrosion ◽  
Biomass Combustion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Low Alloy Steels ◽  
Corrosive Environments

Biomass embodies tremendous potential as a renewable energy resource. According to the biomass thermal Energy Council (BTEC), biomass energy is renewable, carbon neutral, domestic and technologically mature. In addition, the low cost per BTU of wood chips and pellets relative to fossil fuels makes biomass an attractive thermal energy source. Furthermore, ~7% of global energy consumption comprises small-scale biomass combustion, representing a tremendous market for technologies that facilitate enhanced biomass utilization. However, a major challenge associated with utilization of biomass is its combustion behavior. The moisture content, chemical composition, and combustion efficiency varies depending on the source of biomass. Small scale biomass combustors, which for cost reasons are often constructed of mild or low-alloy steels, during operation are subjected to corrosive environments that include alkali halides (borne, e.g., by fly ash particulates), mineral/halogen acids and water; as well as various others such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides. There is a need to create more efficient, longer lasting, cleaner, and cost effective cookstoves for use in burning biomaterials. The materials used for cookstoves must improve burning efficiency, must be able operate at higher temperatures, and should be low cost material systems to durably perform in the corrosive environments. Within this context, Faraday Technology is working on developing low cost and high value corrosion-resistant alloy coatings for existing bio-combustors or lower cost steels with the goal of increasing their functional lifetime, while reducing the component cost. The manufacturing process involves electrodeposition of binary/ternary/quaternary alloys consisting of [Ni/Co]-Cr-[Mo/Fe] onto a low cost substrate and subsequent accelerated high temperature corrosion evaluation. A wide array of electrolytes and processing parameters were evaluated in order to understand these effects on the deposit composition, structure, and high-temperature corrosion resistance properties towards the goal of developing an ideal alloy coating. Specifically, 60 wt% Ni – 40 wt% Cr (NiCr) binary and 25 wt% Ni – 20 wt% Cr – 55 wt% Co (NiCoCr) ternary alloy coatings demonstrated enhanced corrosion resistance when exposed to an aggressive environment (~700°C, 1000 hr, coating surface salted with ~3 mg/cm2 every 100 hours). When compared to the SS base material the NiCr and NiCoCr alloy coatings exhibited a 70% lower weight loss and 3.4 times lifetime improvement over its base material.

scholarly journals Mechanical Properties of Spruce Wood Extracted from GLT Beams Loaded by Fire

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5494
Author(s):  
Lucie Kucíková ◽  
Michal Šejnoha ◽  
Tomáš Janda ◽  
Jan Sýkora ◽  
Pavel Padevět ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Tensile Tests ◽  
Thermal Recovery ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Spruce Wood ◽  
The Impact

Heating wood to high temperature changes either temporarily or permanently its physical properties. This issue is addressed in the present contribution by examining the effect of high temperature on residual mechanical properties of spruce wood, grounding on the results of full-scale fire tests performed on GLT beams. Given these tests, a computational model was developed to provide through-thickness temperature profiles allowing for the estimation of a charring depth on the one hand and on the other hand assigning a particular temperature to each specimen used subsequently in small-scale tensile tests. The measured Young’s moduli and tensile strengths were accompanied by the results from three-point bending test carried out on two groups of beams exposed to fire of a variable duration and differing in the width of the cross-section, b=100 mm (Group 1) and b=160 mm (Group 2). As expected, increasing the fire duration and reducing the initial beam cross-section reduces the residual bending strength. A negative impact of high temperature on residual strength has also been observed from simple tensile tests, although limited to a very narrow layer adjacent to the charring front not even exceeding a typically adopted value of the zero-strength layer d0=7 mm. On the contrary, the impact on stiffness is relatively mild supporting the thermal recovery property of wood.

Dynamic Modelling of Small Scale and High Temperature ORC System Using Simulink and CoolProp

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radheesh Dhanasegaran ◽  
Antti Uusitalo ◽  
Teemu Turunen-Saaresti
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Dynamic Modelling ◽  
Small Scale

scholarly journals High temperature mechanical deformation of an additive manufactured nickel based superalloy using small scale test methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
H. Hilal ◽  
R.J. Lancaster ◽  
S.P. Jeffs ◽  
L. Ednie ◽  
J. Boswell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Mechanical Deformation ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Nickel Based Superalloy ◽  
Scale Test

Environmental Impact on the Life Cycle for Turbine Based Biomass CHP Plants

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Bartocci ◽  
Gianni Bidini ◽  
Paolo Laranci ◽  
Mauro Zampilli ◽  
Michele D'Amico ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Biomass Combustion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environmental Benefit ◽  
Treatment Unit ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Biomass CHP plants represent a viable option to produce distributed energy in a sustainable way when the overall environmental benefit is appraised on the whole life cycle. CHP plants for bioenergy conversion may consist of a gasification (IGC – Integrated Gasification Cycle) or pyrolysis (IPRP – Integrated Pyrolysis Regenerated Plant) pre-treatment unit, producing a syngas that feeds an internal combustion engine or a gas turbine. The external combustion mode is also an option, where exhaust gases from biomass combustion provide heat to either a traditional steam cycle, an ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) or an EFGT (Externally Fired Gas Turbine). This paper focuses specifically on turbines based technologies and provides a LCA comparison of 4 main technologies suitable for the small scale, namely: EFMGT, ORC, IGC and IPRP. The comparison is carried out considering 3 different biomasses, namely a Short Rotation Forestry, an agricultural residue and an agro industrial residue at 2 different scales: micro scale (100 kw) and small scale (1 MW), being higher scales barely sustainable on the life cycle. From data derived from the Literature or experimental campaign (tests at the IPRP and gasification facilities at the University Perugia), LCA analysis were carried out and the different scenarios were compared based on two impact categories: global warming and human health. Input and output of the derived LCI are referred to the functional unit of 1 kWh electric for upstream, core and downstream processes. Results show the contribution of main processes and are discussed comparing scale, technology and feedstock.

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