Title
Evaluation of the physicochemical and thermogravimetric properties of three Peruvian biomasses for their energetic use
Other title
Evaluación de las Propiedades Fisicoquímicas y Termogravimétricas de Tres Biomasas Peruanas para su uso Energético
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions
Abstract
Peru has a growing production of agricultural crops such as cocoa, sugarcane, and oil palm, which generates a large amount of agricultural waste. Only in the 2017 there was a combined production of 5.2 million tons of lignocellulosic waste, which is mostly left in the crop field, causing environmental and health problems. We performed the elemental analysis (content of C, H, N, O, S), proximate (moisture, volatile matter, ash and fixed carbon), chemical (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) and thermogravimetric. High heating value, pH and the IR spectrum of three agricultural biomasses (sugarcane bagasse, empty fruits bunches of oil palm and cocoa pod husks), was also measured. The biomasses evaluated have small values of nitrogen and sulfur, elements that are precursors of NOx and SOx when thermochemical conversion processes occur. The values reported for the elemental and proximate analysis and for the higher calorific value are consistent with previous studies. The results indicate that the sugarcane bagasse and empty fruits bunches of oil palm are suitable for processes such as pyrolysis or gasification, the cocoa pod husks have a high ash content that makes it difficult to use them as a load for those processes.
Volume
2019-July
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería del Petróleo, (combustibles, aceites), Energía, Combustibles
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85073603506
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
ISBN of the container
9780999344361
Conference
17th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology, LACCEI 2019 Montego Bay 24 July 2019 through 26 July 2019
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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