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Khaled Chetehouna

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arXiv2025

Hydrogen production from blended waste biomass: pyrolysis, thermodynamic-kinetic analysis and AI-based modelling

This work contributes to advancing sustainable energy and waste management strategies by investigating the thermochemical conversion of food-based biomass through pyrolysis, highlighting the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing process modelling accuracy and optimization efficiency. The main objective is to explore the potential of underutilized biomass resources, such as spent coffee grounds (SCG) and date seeds (DS), for sustainable hydrogen production. Specifically, it aims to optimize the pyrolysis process while evaluating the performance of these resources both individually and as blends. Proximate, ultimate, fibre, TGA/DTG, kinetic, thermodynamic, and Py-Micro GC analyses were conducted for pure DS, SCG, and blends (75% DS - 25% SCG, 50% DS - 50% SCG, 25% DS - 75% SCG). Blend 3 offered superior hydrogen yield potential but had the highest activation energy (Ea: 313.24 kJ/mol), while Blend 1 exhibited the best activation energy value (Ea: 161.75 kJ/mol). The kinetic modelling based on isoconversional methods (KAS, FWO, Friedman) identified KAS as the most accurate. These approaches provide a detailed understanding of the pyrolysis process, with particular emphasis on the integration of artificial intelligence. An LSTM model trained with lignocellulosic data predicted TGA curves with exceptional accuracy (R^2: 0.9996-0.9998).

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arXiv2016

Flow Configuration Influence On Darcian And Forchheimer Permeabilities Determination

Within the framework of fuel cells, porous materials are used for filtration purpose. Determining physical properties like porosity and permeability are of utmost importance to predict and to manage filtration efficiency of the materials. The permeability of materials is often determined experimentally in laboratory with disc samples (outlet of the flow is achieved through the porous material) that are not exactly similar to the tubes which are used in realistic operating conditions (a main flow is found additionally to the one through the material). Thus, the effect of a second outlet on the Darcian's permeability characterization bench should be studied. In the present paper, we present a new test bench to determine experimentally the Darcy's and Forchheimer's permeabilities for a porous media by taking into account two outlets. Operating parameters (temperature, pressure and mass flow rate) are measured for three different configurations: i) secondary outlet (S.O) is 0% open, ii) S.O is 50% open and iii) S.O is 100% open. Then Darcy's and Forchheimer's permeability for all these three cases are compared and discussed in details. It has been found that the secondary outlet opening does not affect the Darcian's permeability but have substantial influence on the Forchheimer's one through the modifications of the range of study (lower mass flow rate penetrates the porous medium).

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