Refuse-derived fuel (state: s)

Material type: Contaminated Biomass

Exergy values

Method	Minimum / kJ/kg	Mean / kJ/kg	Maximum / kJ/kg
heating values: Huang et al (2016) HHV	17823.0	17823.0	17823.0
heating values: Song et al (2012) HHV	16806.4	16806.4	16806.4
heating values: Zhang et al (2016) HHV	17036.6	17036.6	17036.6
ultimate: Hongliang et al (2017)	17396.4	17472.8	17549.2
ultimate: Shieh & Fan (1982)	17327.7	17371.4	17415.1
ultimate: Song et al (2012)	17675.8	17757.0	17838.1
ultimate: Stepanov (1995)	16773.8	16850.7	16927.7

Composition

No substance composition data.

Proximate analysis

Component	Wt %
VM	73.40
FC	0.50
A	26.10

Reference: (Vassilev, et al., 2010)

Component	Wt %
VM	73.40
FC	0.50
A	26.10

Reference: (Song, et al., 2011)

Ultimate analysis

Component	Wt %
Ash	26.10
C	39.44
O	26.98
H	5.72
N	0.81
S	0.34
Cl	0.61

Reference: (Vassilev, et al., 2010)

Component	Wt %
Ash	26.10
C	39.79
O	27.19
H	5.77
N	0.80
S	0.35
Cl	0.00

Reference: (Song, et al., 2011)

Heating values

Heating value	kJ/kg
HHV	16052.0
LHV	None

Reference: (Song, et al., 2012)