Flash Pyrolysis of Lemon Grass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) for Bio-oil Production in an Electrically Heated Fluidized Bed Reactor
| Autor: | P. Madhu, H. Kanagasabapathy, T. Stephen Livingston |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Environmental Engineering
biology Waste management Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Chemistry 020209 energy chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Nitrogen Chemical engineering Fluidized bed Biofuel 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Gas chromatography Particle size Cymbopogon flexuosus Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy Waste Management and Disposal Pyrolysis 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Waste and Biomass Valorization. 9:1037-1046 |
| ISSN: | 1877-265X 1877-2641 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12649-017-9872-6 |
| Popis: | Bio-oil, a hopeful substitute as an alternative fuel has gained significant attention due to the predicted shortness of conventional fuels and environmental concern. Bio-oils have attracted a lot of interest, as they are liquid energy carriers and general sources of chemicals. In this study, the pyrolysis characteristics of lemon grass were studied to evaluate their potential use as source of bio-oil. Flash pyrolysis of the lemon grass was carried out on a fluidized bed reactor with nitrogen gas atmosphere. The effects of operating parameters such as temperature, particle size and sweep (nitrogen) gas flow rate were investigated. During this study, the maximum yield of pyrolysis bio-oil 50.6 wt% can be achieved under the operation conditions of 450 °C process temperature, 1.0 mm particle size at sweep gas flow rate of 1.75 m3/h. At the end of the study the bio-oil obtained from the flash pyrolysis was analyzed for physical, elemental and chemical compositions by using Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) spectroscopy, gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) and 1H NMR spectroscopy. |
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