Objective The objective of the planned activity is to improve the combustion/gasification behavior of a number of agroresidues & wastes with Worldwide importance, such as wheat straw, olive residue, peach stones, grass, meat and bone meal during combustion and gasification in a fluidized bed reactor. In specific the following tasks will be studied:1) The effect of various pretreatment techniques (leaching, fractionation, pressing, etc.) on the beneficiation of the residues & wastes ash behavior during combustion and gasification in a fluidized bed reactor using various inert bed materials such as silica sand, dolomite, limestone, aluminum sand, followed by simultaneous modeling of the fluidized bed reactor using the produced experimental results2) The evolution of alkali metals, chlorine, sulfur and nitrogen during the various steps of the combustion/gasification reactions in order to identify and evaluate the role of these substances to the formation of both ash-related problems and also harmful effluents such as NOx, SOx, and particulates followed by the development of a mathematical model to describe the whole process. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryalkali metalsnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryhalogensnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model Programme(s) FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002) Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships) Coordinator ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE NETHERLANDS EU contribution No data Address Westerduinweg 3 1755 ZG PETTEN Netherlands See on map Total cost No data