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Kinetic modelling for thermal decomposition of agricultural residues at different heating rates

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The purpose of this work was to establish the pyrolysis kinetics of agricultural biomass residues (mustard husk (MH), cotton stalk (CS), and groundnut shell (GNS)) using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). TGA is carried out at different heating rates (5, 10, 30, and 50 K/min) under inert conditions in the temperature range of 303–1173 K. The iso-conversional methods of Friedman, Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose, and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa were used to estimate the activation energy of the decomposition process. The Criado method, Coats-Redfern Method, and Direct Differential methods were used to model the kinetics, with the latter two methods providing a closer fit with the experimental data. The kinetics of thermal degradation were separately studied for three temperature zones represented as drying, active, and passive zones. The results of Coats-Redfern and Direct Differential methods showed that (i) the nth-order reaction model is applicable for all the samples with order of reaction in the active zone being around ~ 2.0–3.0, ~ 2.5–3.0, and ~ 3.0 for MH, CS, and GNS, respectively, and (ii) the D-3 model is applicable for all the samples in the passive zone.

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The authors are thankful to Bharuch Enviro infrastructure Limited (BEIL) Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, for providing their support in this research.

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One of the authors (AGC) would like to acknowledge the endowment seed grant (EF/2017-18/QE04-06) provided by the Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ).

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Dehmi Kalan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, India

    Hemant Kumar Balsora, S. Kartik, Abhishek Sharma & Anand Gupta Chakinala

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Shroff S.R. Rotary Institute of Chemical Technology, Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 393001, India

    Hemant Kumar Balsora

  3. Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Shroff S.R. Rotary Institute of Chemical Technology, Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 393001, India

    S. Kartik

  4. School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia

    Thomas J. Rainey

  5. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia

    Ali Abbas

  6. Marathi Vidnyan Parishad, Vidnyan Bhavan, V.N. Purav Marg, Sion-Chunabhatti (E), Mumbai, 400022, India

    Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra Joshi

  7. Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, 400019, India

    Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra Joshi

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Balsora, H.K., Kartik, S., Rainey, T.J. et al. Kinetic modelling for thermal decomposition of agricultural residues at different heating rates. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 13, 3281–3295 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-021-01382-4

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