The presented study aims to improve the quality of bio-oils by catalytic upgrading of pyrolysis bio-oil from microwave pyrolysis of biomass using transition metal modified activated carbon (AC) catalyst. A central composite experimental design (CCD) was used to optimize the reaction conditions for high quality bio-oil production. The effects of reaction temperature and reaction time on product ...

This review presents the summary of new studies on pyrolysis of biomass to produce fuels and chemical feedstocks. A number of biomass species, varying from woody and herbaceous biomass to municipal solid waste, food processing residues and industrial wastes, were subjected to different pyrolysis conditions to obtain liquid, gas and solid products. The results of various biomass pyrolysis invest...

Fast pyrolysis is an efficient technique for thermal degradation of lignin to bio-oils containing bio-phenols for the synthesis of adhesives, resins, and polymers. Lignin has a complex structure, and hence a large number of pyrolytic components are generated during the pyrolysis process. The composition of the pyrolytic products depends on the type of lignin, temperature, types of catalyst, and...

OF THE THESIS DNA Attachment to Pyrolyzed Carbon Electrodes for Bionanoelectronics Platforms by Mieko Hirabayashi Masters of Science in Bioengineering: Bioinstrumentation San Diego State University, 2012 Research to understand the electrical properties of DNA as an electrical component continues with the objective of determining the use of DNA as the next generation nanoelectronics component. T...

Co-pyrolysis of Shenmu coal (SM) and cotton stalk (CS) at different blend ratios were carried out in a tubular furnace. The pyrolysis temperature was up to 600 °C at 5 °C/min and kept for 15 min. The results indicated that there was an interactive effect between SM and CS, which increased the tar yield. Moreover, the content of light components in co-pyrolysis tar from all CS/SM blend ratios wa...

*Correspondence: Wei-Hsin Chen, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan e-mail: [email protected] Pyrolysis is an important thermochemical method to convert biomass into bio-oil. In this study, the pyrolysis of sugarcane bagasse in a CO2 atmosphere under conventional and microwave-assisted heating is investigated to achieve CO2 utilizat...

Organic matter in sediments is dominated by kerogen, a high molecular weight geomacromolecule. Kerogen can be subdivided into Types I to IV that provide paleoenvironmental and petroleum potential information. typing performed several chemical methods including elemental analysis (H/C O/C), FTIR pyrolysis-gas chromatography techniques. However, kerogens occur naturally within mineral matrices th...