Are solid recovered fuels resource-efficient?

Household Use of Solid Fuels

Fire Hazards of Some Modern Solid Fuels

Fire hazard during ship transportation of certain modern solid fuels is identified. A particular mechanism which may lead to catastrophic ship fire is discussed. A mathematical model predicting time to such fully developed fire (flashover time) I s proposed. An analytical solution is obtained for the developed model. An important part of this solution is a closed form analytical description of ...

Hydrolysis and composition of recovered fibres fractionated from solid recovered fuel.

Fibres fractionated from solid recovered fuel (SRF), a standardised market combustion fuel produced from sorted waste, were considered as a source of lignocellulosic fermentable sugars. The fibre yield from four samples of SRF was 25-45%, and the separated material consisted of 52-54% carbohydrates, mainly glucan, with a high content of ash (12-17%). The enzymatic digestibility of recovered fib...

Comparative Study of the Thermal Conductivity of Solid Biomass Fuels

The thermal conductivity of solid biomass fuels is useful information in the investigation of biomass combustion behavior and the development of modeling especially in the context of large scale power generation. There are little published data on the thermal conductivity of certain types of biomass such as wheat straw, miscanthus, and torrefied woods. Much published data on wood is in the cont...

Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels for Heat Release Applications

but remain prohibitively expensive for wide adoption. With the availability of accurate computational tools, new approaches have leveraged carbon nanostructures and insights into the steric interaction of STFs to increase energy density employing highly cyclable and modest energy density (60–70 Wh kg −1 ) azobenzene derivatives. [ 8,9 ] While demonstrating a per-molecule increase in energy dens...