Browsing by Author "Li, Xiaole"

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    Arsenic transformation behaviour during thermal decomposition of P. vittata, an arsenic hyperaccumulator
    (Elsevier, 2017-01-22) Duan, Lunbo; Li, Xiaole; Jiang, Ying; Lei, Mei; Dong, Ziping; Longhurst, Philip J.
    Thermal treatment of P. vittata, an arsenic hyperaccumulator harvested from contaminated land is a promising method of achieving volume reduction, energy production and arsenic (As) recovery simultaneously. In this paper, the arsenic transformation characteristics of field-harvested P. vittata were investigated during its pyrolysis and gasification process. The produced solid residue and flue gas were analysed by a high performance liquid chromatography coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HPLC-ICP-MS) to determine both the arsenic concentration and speciation. Moreover, the occurrence of arsenic in the solid residues was further identified as soluble and insoluble, which can feed information to the next arsenic recovery step. Results show that the fuel arsenic into gas phase increases firstly from 400 °C to 600 °C, but then drops from 600 °C to 800 °C, probably due to the self-retention of arsenic by CaO enriched in this P. vittata. Further increasing temperature to 900 °C will result in fast arsenic release. Gasification results in slightly higher arsenic release into the gas phase compared with pyrolysis
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    Experimental and kinetic study of thermal decomposition behaviour of phytoremediation derived Pteris vittata
    (Springer, 2016-12-20) Duan, Lunbo; Chen, Jian; Jiang, Ying; Li, Xiaole; Longhurst, Philip J.; Lei, Mei
    Combustion and gasification for biomass to energy conversion is often suggested for the management of residual Pteris vittata from phytoremediation. In this study, the thermal behaviour of P. vittata was studied on a thermogravimetric analyser, and the kinetic triplet of biomass sample was further determined for different stages of the thermochemical processes using the Ozawa and KAS methods, subsequently modified by an iterative procedure. Results show that thermal decomposition under combustion condition was complete at a lower temperature of ~500 °C compared to ~700 °C for gasification, indicating the both easily complete conversion of P. vittata by combustion and gasification. Kinetic study shows that although activation energy for each stage under combustion condition is mostly larger than that under gasification, the reaction rate of thermal decomposition of P. vittata under combustion condition is still great larger than that under gasification condition. These findings strongly suggest that thermochemical processes offer suitable methods for the volume reduction and energy production of P. vittata.