Activated charcoal can be obtained in many ways. The most promising terms of resource saving and economic benefits is the method obtaining activated carbon from organic waste by slow conductive pyrolysis. As a result such thermochemical conversion, biochar volatile products - condensable non-condensable are formed, which used as fuel for operation pyrolysis reactors. Modeling thermal decomposit...

Grass pellets are a renewable resource that have energy content similar to that of wood. However, the higher ash and chlorine content affects combustion. Thermal degradation analysis of a fuel is useful in developing effective combustion. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of the thermal degradation of grass pellets under inert (nitrogen) and oxidizing (air) atmospheres was conducted. Non-isother...

Biochar is the carbonaceous solid product of biomass pyrolysis which can be used as chemical feedstock for various purposes such as energy production, and adsorption of pollutants. In particular, application of biochar to the soil is gaining greater interests, which can reduce fertilizer consumption, increase crop yields, and sequestrate carbon. This study compares the characteristics of biocha...

The catalytic co-pyrolysis of a seaweed biomass, Laminaria japonica, and a typical polymer material, polypropylene, was studied for the first time. A mesoporous material Al-SBA-15 was used as a catalyst. Pyrolysis experiments were conducted using a fixed-bed reactor and pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). BET surface area, N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms, and NH3 tempe...

In the present study, a mathematical model to describe the pyrolysis of a single solid particle of biomass is used to study the influence of particle size and temperature in the pyrolysis of biomass. The pyrolysis rate has been simulated by a kinetic scheme involving three reactions (primary and secondary): two parallel reactions and a third for secondary interactions between volatile and gaseo...

Charcoal-based fertilizers can be improved in quality by nutrient impregnation and modified to provide nutrients gradually (slow release fertilizer-SRF). SRF fertilizer made using a coating the form of charcoal from pyrolysis palm oil waste. Raw waste Bantur District, Malang, East Java, for soaking process with fertilizers, there are two different types namely organic (EM4) inorganic (Urea) aft...

The effect of pyrolysis rate on the properties of alginic acid-derived carbonaceous materials, termed Starbon®, was investigated. Thermal Gravimetry-IR was used to prepare porous carbons up to 800 °C at several rates and highlighted increased CO2 production at higher pyrolysis rates. N2 porosimetry of the resultant carbons shows how pyrolysis rate affects both the mesopore structure and thus su...

Curie-point pyrolysis mass spectra were obtained from 15 methicillin-resistant and 22 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains. Cluster analysis showed that the major source of variation between the pyrolysis mass spectra resulted from the phage group of the bacteria, not their resistance or susceptibility to methicillin. By contrast, artificial neural networks could be trained to ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of pyrolysis temperature on the physicochemical properties and structure of biochar. Biochar was produced by fast pyrolysis of pitch pine (Pinus rigida) using a fluidized bed reactor at different pyrolysis temperatures (300, 400 and 500 °C). The produced biochars were characterized by elemental analysis, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface...

In this paper the possibility of using the pyrolysis oil derived from waste tyres as a collector in flotation of coal was evaluated. The pyrolysis oil was obtained at the initial and final pyrolysis temperatures of 400 and 700 C, respectively, and the heat holding time of 30 min. Flotation results indicated that the pyrolysis oil emulsion showed stronger collecting ability than diesel and the c...