Pressurized Fast-Pyrolysis Characteristics of Typical Chinese Coals with Different Ranks

Abstract

The pressurized fast pyrolysis of three typical Chinese coals with different coal ranks (Huolinhe lignite, Shenmu bituminous coal, and Jincheng anthracite) was conducted on a self-made pressurized fixed-bed reactor. The physicochemical characteristics of the chars were studied via scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). In addition, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) at ambient pressure has been used to study the influence of the residence time, the pyrolysis temperature, and pressure on the gasification reactivity of residual chars. The results show that the change in char yield and reactivity with pressure, at a residence time of 1 min, is different from that at longer residence time. This is related to the changing impacts of the rapid primary release of volatiles and the slower secondary cracking reactions of the evolved tars and the graphitization of the char structure. Furthermore, as the coal rank, pyrolysis pressure, temperatu...