Table 6. Elemental Composition of Modeled Biocrudes vs Experimental Data and Elemental Imbalance Across HTL and H2T.
| HTL
biocrude |
H2T
biocrude |
imbalance
across reactor [%] |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| experimental | model | error [%] | experimental | model | error [%] | HTL | H2T | |
| C [wt %] | 80.0 | 77.4 | 3.2 | 87.4 | 88.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 0.7 |
| H [wt %] | 8.4 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 7.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| O [wt %] | 11.0 | 13.6 | 23.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -- | 0.3 | 2.1 |
| HHV [MJ/kg] | 35.9 | 38.5 | 7.4 | 43.9 | 44.0 | 0.2 | -- | -- |
| Δhf [MJ/kg]a | –2.2b | –2.2 | –0.1 | –2.0b | –2.1 | –2.5 | -- | -- |
a
Enthalpy of formation.
b
Estimated from experimental HHV.