An innovative kinetic model dedicated to mild degradation (torrefaction) of biomasses

摘要

This study proposes an innovative approach to investigate the thermal degradation lcinetic of biomasses when submitted to torrefaction. This process is expected to have a relevant impact in exploiting the potentialities of biomasses in many major end energy uses. The main motivation of this work moves from the observation that the adoption of the "model-free" isoconversional approach is applied, conventionally, limited to the activation energy (E) determination. This work extends the potentialities of these methods and demonstrates their feasibility in setting up a complete kinetic model.