N2 - The aim of this work was to investigate the heat and mass transfer during thermal decomposition of a single solid fuel particle. The problem regards the pyrolysis process which occurs in the absence of oxygen in the first stage of fuel oxidation. Moreover, the mass transfer during heating of the solid fuels is the basic phenomenon in the pyrolysis-derived alternative fuels (gas, liquid and solid phase) and in the gasification process which is focused on the generation of syngas (gas phase) and char (solid phase). Numerical simulations concern pyrolysis process of a single solid particle which occurs as a consequence of the particle temperature increase. The research was aimed at an analysis of the influence of particle physical properties on the devolatilization process. In the mathematical modeling the fuel grain is treated as an ideal sphere which consists of porous material (solid and gaseous phase), so as to simplify the final form of the partial differential equations. Assumption that the physical properties change only in the radial direction, reduces the partial derivatives of the angular coordinates. This leads to obtaining the equations which are only the functions of the radial coordinate. The model consists of the mass, momentum and energy equations for porous spherical solid particle heated by the stream of hot gas. The mass source term was determined in the wide range of the temperature according to the experimental data. The devolatilization rate was defined by the Arrhenius formula. The results of numerical simulation show that the heating and devolatilization time strongly depend on the physical properties of fuel. Moreover, proposed model allows to determine the pyrolysis process direction, which is limited by the equilibrium state. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/94409/PDF/04_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/94409 PY - 2013 IS - No 2 June EP - 71 DO - 10.2478/aoter-2013-0010 KW - Fuel particle KW - Devolatilization KW - Pyrolysis KW - Heat and mass transfer A1 - Wardach-Święcicka, Izabela A1 - Kardaś, Dariusz PB - The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences DA - 2013 T1 - Modeling of heat and mass transfer during thermal decomposition of a single solid fuel particle SP - 53 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/94409 T2 - Archives of Thermodynamics