Physicochemical Properties of Coal Gasification Fly Ash from Circulating Fluidized Bed Gasifier

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  • 1. School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
    2. Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Online published: 2023-11-27

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023

Abstract

The coal gasification fly ash (CGFA) is an industrial solid waste from coal gasification process and needs to be effectively disposed for environmental protection and resource utilization. To further clarify the feasibility of CGFA to prepare porous carbon materials, the physicochemical properties of ten kinds of CGFA from circulating fluidized bed (CFB) gasifiers were analyzed in detail. The results of proximate and ultimate analysis show that the CGFA is characterized with the features of near zero moisture content, low volatile content as low as 0.90%–9.76%, high carbon content in the range of 37.89%–81.62%, and ultrafine particle size (d50=15.8–46.2 μm). The automatic specific surface area (SSA) and pore size analyzer were used to detect the pore structure, it is found that the pore structure of CGFA is relatively developed, and part of the CGFA has the basic conditions to be used directly as porous carbon materials. From SEM images, the microscopic morphology of the CGFA is significantly different, and they basically have the characteristics of loose and porous structure. XRD and Roman spectroscopy were used to characterize the carbon structure. The result shows that the CGFA contains abundant amorphous carbon structure, and thus the CGFA has a good reactivity and a potential to improve pore structure through further activation. Through thermal gravimetric analysis, it can be concluded that the order of reactivity of the CGFA under CO2 atmosphere has a good correlation with the degree of metamorphism of the raw coal. The gasification reactivity of the CGFA is generally consistent with the change trend of micropores combined with the pore structure. According to the physicochemical properties, the CGFA has a good application prospect in the preparation of porous carbon materials.

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YANG Qiyao, QI Xiaobin, LYU Qinggang, ZHU Zhiping . Physicochemical Properties of Coal Gasification Fly Ash from Circulating Fluidized Bed Gasifier[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2023 , 32(4) : 1710 -1720 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-023-1822-y

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