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Comparing two models for evaporation of moisture in biomass and exploring which model is more consistent with the physics.

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Biomass and vegetative fuels usually consist moisture and evaporation of this moisture is the first step in biomass thermal decomposition and pyrolysis.

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This work presents detailed discussion of evaporation and pyrolysis in shrinking biomass.

Peyman R Borujerdi
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

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This page is a summary of: Modeling of water evaporation from a shrinking moist biomass slab subject to heating: Arrhenius approach versus equilibrium approach, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, December 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118672.
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