Evaluation of date palm residues combustion in fixed bed laboratory reactor: A comparison with sawdust behaviour

Combustion tests of five date palm Tunisian residues, namely: Date Palm Leaflets (DPL), Date Palm Rachis (DPR), Date Palm Trunk (DPT), Date Stones (DS) and Fruit-stalk Prunings (FP), were performed in a laboratory scale furnace. Gaseous emissions such as CO2, CO, VOC, NOx and SO2, were analysed at 600 °C under 30–60 NL/h flow rate. Obtained results were compared with sawdust combustion behaviour in order to select the most convenient biofuel for an application in domestic boiler installations.