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ProfessorGuillermoRein

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor of Fire Science
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7036g.rein Website CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Eniko Jarecsni +44 (0)20 7594 7029

 
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Location

 

614City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Richter:2020:10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122619,
author = {Richter, F and Rein, G},
doi = {10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122619},
journal = {Bioresource Technology},
pages = {1--7},
title = {Reduced chemical kinetics for microscale pyrolysis of softwood and hardwood},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122619},
volume = {301},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - This work studies the chemical kinetics of wood pyrolysis by comparing nine reduced reaction schemes against 22 microscale experiments of softwood and hardwood from the literature. The complexity of reaction schemes ranged from 1 to 12 reactions, with 2 to 7 species. Using multi-objective optimization for isothermal and non-isothermal conditions, the kinetic parameters for each reaction scheme were derived. It was found that the uncertainty of a prediction increases with the number of model parameters, but the accuracy does not always increase with the number of parameters. The appropriate reaction scheme for hardwood is three parallel reactions, as it presents the optimal balance between accuracy and uncertainty. For softwood, a higher complexity could be justified. This work shows the benefits of finding an appropriately complex kinetic scheme by building up complexity from simple schemes.
AU  - Richter,F
AU  - Rein,G
DO  - 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122619
EP  - 7
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0960-8524
SP  - 1
TI  - Reduced chemical kinetics for microscale pyrolysis of softwood and hardwood
T2  - Bioresource Technology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122619
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852419318498?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/76838
VL  - 301
ER  -
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