Selected Design Data Tables - Biomass Gasification, Pyrolysis and Torrefaction - page 485

Appendix C

Selected Design Data Tables

TABLE C.1 Fusibility of Biomass Ash

Temperature ( C)

Type of Biomass Initial Deformation Softening Hemispherical Fluid

Corn cob a

900 1020

Corn stalk a 820 1091

Grape pruning (oxidizing) b

1313 1368 1374 1424

Grape pruning (reducing) b 1310 1360 1371 1382

Olive pit a 850 1480

RDF pellet a

890 1130

RDF (oxidizing) c 1065 1092 1131 1193

RDF (reducing) c

1024 1063 1097 1182

Rice hulls 1439 1650

.

Rice straw a 1060 1250

Walnut shell a

820 1225

a Osman and Goss (1983).
b Rossi (1984, pp. 69

99).
c Alter and Campbell (1979, pp. 127

142).