GASIFICATION OF SUGARCANE BAAGASSE PELLETS TO OBTAIN CLEAN ENERGY AND HIGH HEAT POWER

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.3172232207106

• Palavras-chave: Pellets, gasification, calorific value, sugarcane bagasse, characterization, biomass.

• Keywords: Pellets, gasification, calorific value, sugarcane bagasse, characterization, biomass.

• Abstract:

  The present work was developed with the objective of studying the gasification of pellets from sugarcane bagasse, made with binders to obtain a fuel of high calorific value and clean energy. Still within the sugarcane biomass pelletization process, characterizations of the main physical properties, such as moisture and specific mass of the final product, were made. In the production of pellets, bagasse was made with the addition of binder, a liquid also residual from the sugar and ethanol industry, used to increase the binding potential between the particles, stability and calorific value. A comparative study of the calorific value of the pellets was carried out, through a thermal analysis, using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric (TGA) analysis. In this study, it was observed that with the pelleting process there was a 10-fold increase in mass per unit volume of sugarcane bagasse, directly implying an increase in the PCI of the biomass pellet in an increase of 3.6 times the PCI of bagasse in natura.