Molecular-Level Kinetic Modeling of Biomass Gasification

A molecular-level kinetic model for biomass gasification was developed and tuned to experimental data from the literature. The development was divided into two categories: the composition of the feedstock and the construction of the reaction network. The composition model of biomass was divided into three submodels for cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Cellulose and hemicellulose compositions were modeled as linear polymers using Flory–Stockmayer statistics to represent the polymer size distribution. The composition of lignin, a cross-linked polymer, was modeled using relative amounts of structural building blocks or attributes. When constructing the full biomass composition model, the fractions of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin were optimized using literature-reported ultimate analyses. The reaction network model for biomass contained pyrolysis, gasification, and light-gas reactions. For cellulose and hemicellulose, the initial depolymerization was described using Flory–Stockmayer statistics. T...

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