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Combustion is a complicated chemical process which would follow below simple chemical equation.
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Char is the “black solid residue of a variable aromatic nature remaining after the end of the initial rapid weight loss upon heating of a solid biomass” [4].
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Abdoli, M.A., Golzary, A., Hosseini, A., Sadeghi, P. (2018). Wood Pellet Combustion. In: Wood Pellet as a Renewable Source of Energy. University of Tehran Science and Humanities Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74482-7_8
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