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Letter to the editor Reply to the letter to the editor The comments of Professor Jones on the potential catalytic and flow effects in self-heating experiments on biomass are very useful. He claims that catalytic effects introduced by the presence of a steel basket or a thermocouple are negligible in such experiments. We agree with this conclusion. In our experiments, only the thermocouple (shielded type K) was present. This thermocouple most likely has a lower catalytic activity than the mineral content of the biomass itself (straw) and furthermore it was located in the center of the sample
where the oxygen availability was low during reaction due to diffusion limitations. T. Grotkjær, K. Dam-Johansen, A. Jensen, P. Glarborg* Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark E-mail address: [email protected] 4 March 2003 available online 4 September 2003
* Corresponding author. Fax: þ 45-45-882258. 0016-2361/$ - see front matter q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2003.04.001
Letter to the editor Reply to the letter to the editor The comments of Professor Jones on the potential catalytic and flow effects in self-heating experiments on biomass are very useful. He claims that catalytic effects introduced by the presence of a steel basket or a thermocouple are negligible in such experiments. We agree with this conclusion. In our experiments, only the thermocouple (shielded type K) was present. This thermocouple most likely has a lower catalytic activity than the mineral content of the biomass itself (straw) and furthermore it was located in the center of the sample
where the oxygen availability was low during reaction due to diffusion limitations. T. Grotkjær, K. Dam-Johansen, A. Jensen, P. Glarborg* Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark E-mail address: [email protected] 4 March 2003 available online 4 September 2003
* Corresponding author. Fax: þ 45-45-882258. 0016-2361/$ - see front matter q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2003.04.001