Chapter 6 KINETIC MODELS OF COAL PYROLYSIS（第六章煤热解的动力学模型）.pdf

111 Chapter 6 KINETIC MODELS OF COAL PYROLYSIS In this chapter we discuss in detail relatively recent models developed in con- nection with the experimental programs surveyed in Chapters 4 and 5. Earlier model- ing work, now largely superseded, is altogether omitted. The models discussed in sections 1 and 2 are phenomenological in nature. They postulate a set of independent or coupled reactions describing product formation in terms of various components whose exact nature remains unspecified. The postu- lated reactions contain a number of parameters which are determined by comparison with experimental data. In some models, the estimated parameter values fall in a chemically meaningful range and as a result they relate to some extent to actual chemical processes. Because of their simplicity, phenomenological models have proved useful in combustion and gasification, where the total yield and heating content of products are essential while the chemical structure and amount of indi- vidual products is not required. In the last section of the chapter, we will discuss possible approaches to developing chemical models describing pyrolysis in terms of functional groups and their elementary reactions. Chemical modeling has not been feasible in the past because of the complexity of the overall process, the lack of complete grasp on reaction mechanisms and the lack of sufficiently accurate values for rate param- eters. Information accumulating from recent spectroscopic investigations of coal structure and kinetic experiments with model compounds is gradually imoroving this situation to the extent that chemically based models are becoming reasonable goals in pyrolysis research. Such models would pro