Energy & Fuels, Vol.30, No.8, 6342-6349, 2016
Preliminary Study on Copyrolysis of Spent Mushroom Substrate as Biomass and Huadian Oil Shale
In this work, thermal behaviors of Huadian oil shale, spent mushroom substrate, and their mixture were investigated in a thermogravimetric analyzer. The Coats-Redfern method was adopted to calculate kinetic parameters. The results indicated that there were remarkable synergetic effects during the copyrolysis. In addition, an comparison of the experimental and the calculated yields was carried out over a temperature range of 490-590 degrees C by a lab-scale retorting reactor. It showed that synergetic effects between raw materials promoted the producing of oil and gas and reduced the formation of solid residues. Besides, characteristics of the obtained oil indicated that the presence of spent mushroom substrate produced significant influences on the chemical component distribution.