Analysis and origins of volatile organic compounds smoke from ligno-cellulosic fuels

Barboni, Toussaint; Pellizzaro, Grazia; Arca, Bachisio; Chiaramonti, Nathalie; Duce, Pierpaolo

doi:10.1016/j.jaap.2010.05.006

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“…In the experiment, the emissions from heated needles or twigs were characterized by high amounts of monoterpenes. The result agrees well with the findings of previous studies . Clearly, these monoterpenes are derived from the essential oil in the fuels.…”

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“…Therefore, the fire behavior is partially governed by fuel properties . It is well known that fuels basically consist of hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin, extractives, and minerals . Being one kind of extractives , essential oil is mainly composed of terpenoids, especially monoterpenes .…”

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“…Although many previous studies have described and hypothesized the close relationship between essential oil of fuels and fire behavior, little work has been done on the emissions from essential‐oil‐rich fuels before pyrolysis . In contrast, the pyrolysis process has been studied extensively .…”

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Investigation of emissions from heated essential‐oil‐rich fuels at 200 °C

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SUMMARY Essential oil of fuels is closely linked with the behavior of forest fires, especially high intensity fires and eruptive fires. It is assumed that the potential reason is the large quantities of flammable gases released from essential oil‐rich fuels before pyrolysis in fire environment. However, few studies have been carried out on the hypothesis. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the emissions from essential oil‐rich fuels. The fuels were collected from three coniferous species. In the experiment, needles and twigs were heated in a vacuum oven at 200 °C, and the emissions within 15 min had been sampled using Tenax tubes. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry served as an analytical instrument. The results showed that the emissions contained high proportion of monoterpenes, such as α‐pinene, camphene, β‐pinene, 3‐carene, and d‐limonene. The monoterpene emissions from heated needles and twigs of Pinus pumila, Larix gmelinii, and Pinus sylvestris were 61.221, 49.606, and 37.853 µg g−1 dry weight (needles), and 211.727, 139.957, and 121.505 µg g−1 dry weight (twigs), respectively. Statistical analyses showed the significant differences not only among species but also between needles and twigs. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…It is known that while Pinus laricio is the species with the highest relative content in lignin and Cistus ladanifer (gum rockrose) is one of the richest in cellulose (55% to 60%), Erica arborea (tree heath) is the plant species with the highest holocellulose (cellulose and hemicellulose) content (Barboni et al 2010). These latter two species are evergreen small-diameter hardwood shrubs and constitute a significant proportion of Mediterranean forest vegetation, occupying surfaces of over 2100000 ha and 2400000 ha, respectively, in Spain (MAPAMA 2007).…”

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Cristalinidad de microfibras de celulosa obtenidas de Cistus ladanifer y Erica arborea

Carrión-Prieto

Martín-Ramos

Hernández-Navarro

et al. 2019

Maderas, Cienc. tecnol.

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The effectiveness of the use of cellulose fibers as particulates/composite reinforcers involves the assessment of the crystallinity of such fibers. The aim of the present work is to provide information on the degree of crystallinity of the cellulose microfibers obtained from the stems of Cistus ladanifer and Erica arborea shrubs through two different methods, namely an alkaline treatment and a microwave-assisted deep eutectic solvent (DES) method. The crystallinity indexes (CrI) obtained from X-ray powder diffraction patterns indicated that higher CrI were attained for cellulose obtained from the DES treatment. Complementary information on the degree of crystallinity was also retrieved from attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) vibrational spectra, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs, and accessibility data for the DES-treated celluloses from the two species. The crystallinity results for the fibers derived from these two Mediterranean shrubs were within the range of the results for those derived from wood pulp, opening the door to their valorization for cellulose-derived packing applications or for their use as reinforcers in composite materials in combination with other biopolymers.

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“…Despite differences in tree heights, densities and distributions, forest fuels are composed of cellulose (38-50 %), hemicellulose (7-26 %), lignin (23-34 %), extracts (\15 %) and minerals (\1 %) (Barboni et al 2010). Extracts are closely related to the flammability and behavior of forest fire (Brown et al 2003;Shafizadeh et al 1977).…”

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Supercritical extracts of forest fuels in Great Xing’an Mountains

Zhao

Wang

Shu³

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J. For. Res.

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Extracts are important components of fuels. Fatty-extracts with high heating value (HV) are hypothesized by researchers as positively related to the HV of fuels. The Soxhlet extractor is typically used to extract fatty-extracts but it has shortcomings, including long processing time (8-10 h) and the requirement for large amounts of organic solvent. Supercritical extraction is an alternate and useful technique for extraction of natural products. However, published studies rarely discuss the relationship between extracts and HV. In this study, we assessed the supercritical extracts (SuE) of forest fuels in the Great Xing'an Mountains. Our results indicated that the optimum conditions for extraction of SuEs were 40-60 mesh, 40-50 MPa, 45°C, 80 min and a CO 2 flow rate of 1.5-2.0 dm 3 /min. The Soxhlet extracts contents and the SuE contents were all related to HV. However, R 2 of the coniferous samples (0.8499) and needle samples (0.9722) demonstrated that the correlation between HV and the SuE content was closer. We conclude that supercritical fatty-extracts provide a useful index of the HV of fuels, especially coniferous fuels. SuE data can be used in fire management, for example to estimate the rate of fire spread or fire intensity.

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Analysis and origins of volatile organic compounds smoke from ligno-cellulosic fuels

Cited by 25 publications

References 35 publications

Investigation of emissions from heated essential‐oil‐rich fuels at 200 °C

Investigation of emissions from heated essential‐oil‐rich fuels at 200 °C

Cristalinidad de microfibras de celulosa obtenidas de Cistus ladanifer y Erica arborea

Supercritical extracts of forest fuels in Great Xing’an Mountains

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