GASEIFICAÇÃO DE PELLETS DO BAGAÇO DA CANA DE AÇUCAR PARA OBTENÇÃO DE ENERGIA LIMPA E DE ALTO PODER CALORIFICO

Abstract

The present work was developed to study the gasification of pellets from sugarcane bagasse, made with activating binders, to obtain a fuel with high calorific power and clean energy. Still within the sugarcane biomass pelletization process, the main physical properties were characterized, such as diameter, length, height, humidity and specific mass of the final product. In the production of pellets, bagasse was made with the addition of glycerin, a residual liquid from biodiesel production that was used to increase the binder potential between the particles, increasing their stability and thus having a better and more resistant structure. Finally, gasification of sugarcane bagasse pellets, analyzing their calorific value through the composition of the produced poor gas. In addition, a comparative study of the calorific power of the pellets was performed through thermal analysis using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric (TGA) analysis. In this study it was observed that with the pelletization process there was a 10-fold increase in mass per unit volume of sugarcane bagasse, directly implying an increase of 3.6 times the biomass pellet PCI in the PCI. of fresh bagasse.