This study investigated catalytic microwave pyrolysis of Douglas fir sawdust pellets using carbon catalysts produced from corn stover. The effects of catalyst to biomass ratio on the bio-oil, syngas, and biochar yields were determined. Functional groups (carbonyls, phenolics, lactones, carboxyls) of carbon catalysts and GC/MS analysis were used to study the catalytic pyrolysis of Douglas fir sa...

The environmental performance of industrial anaerobic digestion (AD), pyrolysis, and integrated system (AD sequence with pyrolysis) on food waste treatment were evaluated using life cycle assessment. The integrated treatment system indicated similar environmental benefits to AD with the highest benefits in climate change and water depletion in addition to the increased energy generation potenti...

The feasibility of co-producing activated carbon and bio-oil from rice stalk through molten salt pyrolysis is reported in this work. The results indicated that: (1) mixed ZnCl2-KCl molten salt could considerably improve the solid and liquid yield as well as the ratio of H2 and CH4 selectively (compared to the traditional ZnCl2 method), (2) an increase of pyrolysis temperature had the same impac...

T h e t ime-resolved sensit ized fluorescence of anthracene-doped naphtha lene c rys ta l s fo l lowing picosecond-pulse exc i ta t ion w a s invest igated exper imenta l ly as a funct ion of d o p a n t concentrat ion a n d temperature . T h e influence of the exci tat ion intensity on the d e c a y of pure naphtha lene crys ta l s is s tudied a n d y ie lds an a lmost temperatureindependent a...

This work studied the facilitation of transportation Missan heavy crude oil characterized with high viscosity 84.61 cp at 15 °C, low API 23.1,  by reducing its from break down asphaltene agglomerates using five solvents some novel combinations chemical additives were used for this study (naphtha & toluene, naphtha xylene, kerosene, toluene and xylene kerosene).The was measured after be...

Fuel quality is an important indicator for the suitability of alternative fuel utilization in internal combustion (IC) engines. In this paper, light naphtha and fusel oil have been introduced as additives local low octane gasoline to operate a spark ignition (SI) engine. Investigated samples prepared based on volume denoted GN10 (90% 10% naphtha), GF10 oil), GN5F5 gasoline, 5% oil) addition G10...