Soria Verdugo, AntonioGarcía Hernando, NéstorGarcía-Gutiérrez, L.M.Ruiz-Rivas Hernando, Ulpiano2015-05-212015-05-212011-04Energy Conversion and Management 65 (2013) January, pp. 239–2440196-8904https://hdl.handle.net/10016/20793Procceedings of: 3th Conference on renewables for desert regions. Global Conference on Renewable energy and Energy Efficiency for Desert Regions 2011 "GCREEDER 2011". Tokk place 2011 April 26-28,in Aman (Jordanian). The Event Web site is http://www.solarthermalworld.org/content/gcreeder-2011-amanThe thermal decomposition of biomass (pine pellets) and sewage sludge was studied using thermogravimetric analysis under an inert atmosphere and the Distributed Activation Energy Model (DAEM) was employed. The activation energy and the frequency factor that characterize the kinetics were determined for both samples. A simplification of the process for prediction of devolatilization curves was proposed, evaluating its validity for both cases. The simplified method was found to combine both simplicity and low deviations with experimental data.6application/pdfeng© 2012 Elsevier Ltd.Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 EspañaDAEMBiomass devolatilizationPyrolysis kineticsSewage sludgeconference paperIngeniería IndustrialFísicaopen access239January244Energy Conversion and Management65CC/0000023705