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An Overview of Solid Fuel Processing, Kinetics, and the Advances in Minimizing Carbon Monoxide Emissions

Version 1 : Received: 6 October 2023 / Approved: 9 October 2023 / Online: 10 October 2023 (02:45:18 CEST)

How to cite: NYOMBI, A.; Williams, M.; Wessling, R. An Overview of Solid Fuel Processing, Kinetics, and the Advances in Minimizing Carbon Monoxide Emissions. Preprints 2023, 2023100528. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0528.v1 NYOMBI, A.; Williams, M.; Wessling, R. An Overview of Solid Fuel Processing, Kinetics, and the Advances in Minimizing Carbon Monoxide Emissions. Preprints 2023, 2023100528. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0528.v1

Abstract

There is a growing notion that biomass are the best resource to replace the declining fossil fuels, yet both share the long lived human threat: toxic combustion emissions. Among the toxic combustion products is carbon monoxide (CO) that not only causes acute but also chronic ailments. This brief review discusses the solid fuel processing technologies from combustion, thermochemical and biochemical processing to kinetics and thermodynamics including the mechanism for release of CO. It further expounds on the burden that CO has caused England and Wales in the last 25 years. The main gist are the systems that have been developed to minimize human exposure to CO including cooking, heating, catalytic and detection systems. Finally, alternative technologies are discussed that work by changing the chemical nature of solid fuels as a way to minimize CO emissions.

Keywords

Pyrolysis; combustion emissions; improved cookstoves; advanced boilers; CO detectors; catalyst impregnation

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Physical Chemistry

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