- Title
- Catalytic pyrolysis of straw biomasses (wheat, flax, oat and barley) and the comparison of their product yields
- Creator
- Aqsha, Aqsha; Tijani, Mansour Mohammedramadan; Moghtaderi, Behdad; Mahinpey, Nader
- Relation
- Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis Vol. 125, Issue May, p. 201-208
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2017.03.022
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- In this study, the pyrolysis of several Canadian straw biomasses was studied using a thermogravimetric analyzer and a bench-scale horizontal fixed-bed reactor, in order to better understand the devolatilization process and to obtain information about the product yields of these biomasses. The straw biomasses were converted through pyrolysis performed in a fixed-bed reactor at temperatures of 500 °C to study the influence of the feedstock on product yields. The effects of various catalysts on product yields are also discussed. When using zeolite catalysts, the bio-oil and bio-char yields of the straw pyrolysis were increased to 46.44% and 38.77%, respectively, while the bio-gas yield was decreased to 13.65%. The use of catalyst zeolite ZY-SS had the most significant effect on overall bio-oil and bio-char yields, increasing the bio-oil yield by about 2% and the bio-char yield by 8%. This catalyst had the most significant effect on the pyrolysis of flax straw, where the bio-oil yield was increased to 46.44%. In the pyrolysis of oat straw, the use of the catalyst consistently decreased the bio-gas yield; however, the bio-oil yield increased the most significantly (43.32%) with the use of catalyst zeolite ZY-NS. The use of zeolite ZY-NS also increased the bio-oil yield during the pyrolysis of barley straw (43.03%).
- Subject
- biomass; biofuels; volatile; pyrolysis; proximate analysis; zeolite catalyst
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1400031
- Identifier
- uon:34720
- Identifier
- ISSN:0165-2370
- Rights
- © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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