Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of municipal sludge combustion characteristics
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摘要: 为优化市政污泥焚烧工艺、提升处置效率,以成都第一污水处理厂市政污泥为研究对象,基于同步热分析技术,对热重、微分热重及差示扫描量热信号进行综合分析,在空气气氛、升温速率为20 K/min条件下,揭示了市政污泥燃烧过程的特性演化及其分阶段动力学与热力学行为。为验证Coats-Redfern积分法计算结果的准确性,同时采用了Achar-Brindley-Sharp微分法进行对比计算。结果表明:市政污泥燃烧过程可划分为水分蒸发、挥发分燃烧、固定碳燃烧和燃尽4个阶段,其中,主要热释放集中于挥发分燃烧和固定碳燃烧阶段。污泥着火温度为220.7 ℃,燃尽温度为605.9 ℃,综合燃烧特性指数为6. 32×10-8 %2/(min2·K3),表现出良好的燃烧稳定性。动力学分析表明,水分蒸发和挥发分燃烧阶段符合一级反应模型,固定碳燃烧和燃尽阶段符合二级反应模型;2种方法所得表观活化能偏差均在15%以内,验证了Coats-Redfern积分法结果的可靠性。CR积分法求得的市政污泥燃烧4个阶段表观活化能分别为52.24,48.81,192.38,102.27 kJ/mol。热力学分析显示,各阶段熵变均为负值,吉布斯自由能均为正,说明污泥焚烧过程需外部能量驱动,高温燃尽阶段能量需求较高。研究结果可为市政污泥焚烧工艺优化提供参考。Abstract: To optimize the municipal sludge incineration process and improve disposal efficiency, municipal sludge from the First Sewage Treatment Plant in Chengdu was selected as the research object, and synchronous thermal analysis technology was employed to comprehensively analyze the thermogravimetric (TG), derivative thermogravimetric (DTG), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) signals. To verify the accuracy of the Coats-Redfern (CR) integral method, the Achar-Brindley-Sharp (ABS) differential method was additionally employed for comparative calculation. The combustion characteristics, as well as the staged kinetic and thermodynamic behaviors of the sludge, were investigated in air atmosphere at a heating rate of 20 K/min. The results showed that the combustion process can be divided into four stages: moisture evaporation, volatile combustion, fixed carbon combustion, and burnout. The main heat release is concentrated in the volatile combustion and fixed carbon combustion stages. The ignition temperature of the sludge is 220.7 ℃, the burnout temperature is 605.9 ℃, and the comprehensive combustion characteristic index is 6. 32×10-8 %2/(min2·K3, indicating good combustion stability. Kinetic analysis revealed that the moisture evaporation and volatile combustion stages follow the first-order reaction model (F1), while the fixed carbon combustion and burnout stages conform to the second-order reaction model (F2). The apparent activation energies obtained by the two methods deviated by less than 15%, confirming the reliability of the CR results. The apparent activation energies for each stage were 52.24, 48.81, 192.38, 102.27 kJ/mol, respectively. Thermodynamic analysis indicated that the entropy change (ΔS) is negative and the Gibbs free energy (ΔG) is positive in all stages, demonstrating that the sludge incineration process requires external energy input, with higher energy demand in the high-temperature burnout stage. These findings provide a theoretical reference for optimizing municipal sludge incineration processes.
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Key words:
- municipal sludge /
- combustion characteristics /
- thermogravimetric analysis /
- kinetics /
- thermodynamics
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