Sustainable energy production through conversion of biomass has recently found growing
interest. Among thermochemical conversion techniques, gasification is of interest to replace …

This Review covers the current state-of-the-art literature dealing with numerical modeling
and experimental analysis of moving grate biomass combustors. The greatest attention is …

Biomass pyrolysis in the thermally thick regime is an important thermochemical
phenomenon encountered in many different types of reactors. In this paper, a particle …

The ash-deposition (AD) characteristics of straws (corn stalk [CS], wheat straw [WS], cotton
stems [CCS], and soybean stalk [SS]), and the effects of lignite (Husheng [HS], Huolinhe …

This paper investigated the heat transfer from a wall-affected non-spherical particle to the
turbulence gas flow both numerically and experimentally. In the numerical section, a three …

Purpose Brewer's spent grain (BSG) is the main by-product of the brewing industry, holding
significant potential for biomass applications. The purpose of this paper was to determine …

Sugarcane bagasse is used as energy source in the sugar cane industry. An appropriate
characterization of their physical and morphological properties is vitally important for their …

As in every complex technological process design, pyrolysis reactor design and optimization
require a mathematical model of sufficient complexity. Aside from properties of utilized …

In this study, a numerical simulation of wood burning in a biomass stove is presented. The
main aim was to test the suitability of Computational Fluid Dynamics–Discrete Element …

Real geometric structures of randomly packed beds are modeled using the discrete element
software LIGGGHTS. The wall-adapting local eddy-viscosity (WALE) model and the EBU …