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Fuel 86 (2007) 2446–2456 www.fuelfi Use of TMA to predict deposition behaviour of biomass fuels ´ a,* b b b A.A. Tortosa Masia , B.J.P. Buhre , R.P. Gupta , T.F. Wall a Energy Technology Section, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands b Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2300, Australia Received 12 April 2006; received in revised form 18 January 2007; accepted 23 January 2007 Available online 27 February 2007 Abstract Deposits formation on boiler heat transfer surfaces is one of the main operational problems associated to biomass co-combustion. This paper proposes a novel method to rank deposition propensity of biomass fuels. The method combines thermo-mechanical analysis (TMA) with ash leaching procedures and is applied here to a set of biomass fuels. Based on the TMA penetration and shrinkage traces obtained for the original and the leached ashes, the fuels are classified regarding their deposition tendencies. The results have been suc- cessfully validated with chemical analysis of the liquid fraction from ash leaching. Initial results for the behaviour of coal–biomass mix- tures are also presented. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Biomass; Deposits; TMA 1. Introduction