CORN STRAW AND BIOMASSBLENDS: COMBUSTIONCHARACTERISTICSAND NO FORMATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- KINETIC STUDY OF CORN STRAW PYROLYSIS -- 2.1. Experimental -- 2.1.1. Materials -- 2.1.2. Equipment and Procedures -- 2.2. Analytical Methods -- 2.3. Results and Discussion -- 2.3.1. General Pyrolysis Behaviour of Corn Straw Samples -- 2.3.2. Models to Simulate Corn Straw Pyrolysis -- 2.4 Conclusions -- ANALYSIS OF COALSAND BIOMASS PYROLYSIS -- 3.1. Analytical Methods -- 3.2. Result and Discussion -- 3.2.1. Wt Vs. T -- 3.2.2. Ln(A/T2) Vs. -1/(RT) -- 3.2.3. V/V* Vs. E -- 3.2.4. F(E) Vs. E -- 3.2.5. Lnk0 Vs. E -- 3.2.6. V/V* Vs. T -- 3.3. Conclusion -- COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICSOF CORN STRAW AND BIOMASS BLENDSAND NO FORMATION IN A FIXED BED -- 4.1. Experimental Rig -- 4.2. Combustion Characteristics of Corn Straw and NO Formation -- 4.2.1. Combustion Characteristics of Different Parts of Corn Straw and NOFormation -- 4.2.2. Effect of Corn Stalk Length -- 4.2.3. Effect of Air Preheating and Fuel Moisture -- 4.3. Combustion Characteristics of Biomass Blends and NOFormation -- COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICSAND NO FORMATION FOR BIOMASS BLENDSIN A 35-TON-PER-HOUR TRAVELLINGGRATE UTILITY BOILER -- 5.1. Utility Boiler -- 5.2. Data Acquisition Techniques -- 5.3. Results and Discussion -- 5.3.1. Combustion Characteristics -- 5.3.2. Gas Temperature and Component Concentrations in the Regionabove the Grate -- 5.3.3. Gas Temperature in the Furnace -- 5.3.4. The Mass Ratio of Fly-Ash and Boiler Slag -- 5.3.5. Boiler Efficiency and Main Run Parameters -- 5.3.6. Fly-Ash Residue -- 5.4. Conclusions -- 5.5 Nomenclature -- NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF BIOMASSCOMBUSTION AND NO FORMATIONIN A FIXED BED -- 6.1 Mathematical Model -- 6.1.1 Physical Model -- 6.1.2 Combustion Model -- 6.1.3 Governing Equations for the Gas and Solid Phases.

6.1.4 Model of NO Formation and Subtraction -- 6.1.5 Variations in the Bed Height and Fuel Density -- 6.2 Computation Method and Grid having a Varying Dimension -- 6.3 Computational Boundary and Initial Conditions -- 6.4 Numerical Simulations of Combustion and NO Formation forDifferent Primary Air Flow Rates -- 6.5 Conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.