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  Afr. J. Biotechnol.

  Vol. 8 No. 10

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African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 8 (10), pp. 22512257, 18 May 2009

ISSN 1684-5315  © 2009 Academic Journals  

 

 

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Kinetic analysis of nitric oxide reduction using biogas as reburning fuel

 

Xue-Bin Wang, Qin-Xin Zhao*, Hou-Zhang Tan, Tong-Mo Xu and Shi- En Hui

 

State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi 710049, People’s Republic of China.

 

*Corresponding author. E-mail: zhaoqx@mail.xjtu.edu.cn. Tel.: +86-029-82668703. Fax: +86-029-82668703.

 

Accepted 20 April, 2009

 
   Abstract
 

Biogas was suggested more suitable as reburning fuel to reduce NO emission and Miller-Bowan’s mechanism was performed to analyze the effect of reaction environment in the process of biogas reburning. Results show that the NO reduction efficiency increased with the increase of hydrocarbon in biogas, reburning fuel ratio, initial NO concentration and residence time. When initial NO concentration reached 700 μl/l or residence time reaches 2 s, the dependence on initial NO concentration weakened greatly. NO reduction reached maximum at 1200 – 1400 K and enhanced abruptly at the stoichiometric ratio of 0.85 with the decrease of stoichiometirc ratio. The investigations indicated the optimal biogas reburnning technology potential to reduce NO pollution.

 

Key word: Biomass, biogas, kinetic analysis, modeling, nitric oxide, reburning.

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