Combustion behaviors and kinetics analysis of coal, biomass and plastic

In this paper, thermal analysis method (TGA) was adopted to describe the combustion behavior of bituminous coal(GC), anthracite(LC), biomass(PS) and plastic(PVC).The structure characteristics of these samples were carried out using Raman spectroscope followed by peak deconvolution and data analysis. The kinetic parameters and combustion reaction mechanism were obtained by fitting experimental data with the random nucleation nuclei growth model (RNGM) and volume model (VM) in order to find out the kinetics characteristics responsible for the combustion of the samples. The results indicate that significant difference between combustion process of these samples are mainly attributed to their differences structures, the combustion reactivity of PS is better than GC duo to the catalysis of alkali matter in biomass ash. RNGM model is better than VM model for simulating the combustion process, and TRNGM model plays a good performance in depicting the combustion process of PVC with three reaction stages.