- Title
- Formation of nitrogen-containing compounds during microwave pyrolysis of microalgae: product distribution and reaction pathways
- Creator
- Huang, Feng; Tahmasebi, Arash; Maliutina, Kristina; Yu, Jianglong
- Relation
- Bioresource Technology Vol. 245, Issue Part A, December 2017, p. 1067-1074
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.08.093
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The formation of nitrogen-containing compounds in bio-oil during microwave pyrolysis of Chlorella and Spirulina microalgae has been investigated in this study. Activated carbon (AC) and magnetite (Fe₃O₄) were used as microwave receptors during microwave pyrolysis experiments. It has been found that the use of Fe3O4 increased the total yield of bio-oil. The use of different microwave receptors did not seem to have affected the total yield of nitrogen-containing compounds in the bio-oil. However, Fe₃O₄ promoted the formation of nitrogen-containing aliphatics, thereby reducing the formation of nitrogen-containing aromatics. The use of AC promoted the dehydration reactions during amino acid decomposition, thereby enhancing the formation of nitrogen-containing aromatics during pyrolysis. From the gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analysis results, the major high-value nitrogen-containing compounds in the pyrolysis bio-oil of Chlorella and Spirulina were identified as indole and dodecamide. The formation mechanisms of nitrogen-containing compounds were proposed and discussed.
- Subject
- nitrogen-containing compounds; microalgae; microwave pyrolysis; microwave receptor; bio-oil
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1352646
- Identifier
- uon:30924
- Identifier
- ISSN:0960-8524
- 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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