Modeling of Heat Transfer through a Single Biomass Particle as a function of Time inside a Continuous Auger Pyrolysis Reactor

As thermo- chemical reactions are achieving increasing attention as a promising technique to produce second generation biofuels, it becomes critical to describe mathematically the physical process that governs it. This article describes the path of heat that travels from the surface to the core of a single cylindrical biomass particle through a mathematical equation. It was found from the model that the heat travels exponentially in the beginning and once the heat front reaches the center of the particle, it remains constant.