Flash pyrolysis of forestry residues from the Portuguese Central Inland Region within the framework of the BioREFINA-Ter project

Fast pyrolysis product distribution of biopretreated corn stalk by methanogen

“…Biomass was converted into bio-oil, bio-char and biogas by using pyrolysis technology. Compared to other reactors, fluidized bed reactor given the most potential in converting biomass into bio-oil due to rapid devolatilization, high heating rate (Amutio et al, 2013;Chang et al, 2013;Heidari et al, 2014). The bio-oil was not only used as an alternative to petroleum, but included some high-valuable chemicals such as 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) (Torri et al, 2010), levoglucose (LG) (Dobele et al, 2005), levoglucosenone (LGO) (Shen et al, 2010) and 4-vinyl phenol (4-VP) (Qu et al, 2013).…”

Fast pyrolysis of eucalyptus waste in a conical spouted bed reactor

“…Furthermore, a conical spouted bed reactor (CSBR) is proposed for the fast pyrolysis of this residual biomass as alternative to fluidized beds, given that it performs well by obtaining high bio-oil yields with several biomass materials, such as pinewood (Amutio et al, 2012) or forest shrub wastes with a heterogeneous composition (Amutio et al, 2013b). Furthermore, it is noteworthy that short volatile residence times are suitable for minimizing the catalytic activity of the ashes (Carpenter et al, 2014), which allows obtaining high bio-oil yields (70 wt.%) for rice husk pyrolysis, even though this material has a high ash content (Alvarez et al, 2014a).…”

Hydrogen production from biomass and plastic mixtures by pyrolysis-gasification

“…Pyrolysis and gasification are two effective conversion methods to produce hydrogenrich gas from biomass, which can be also steam-reformed or passed through a catalyst to obtain higher-purity streams of gas [5][6][7][8][9]. Moreover, pyrolysis and gasification process conditions can be optimized to maximize the yields of gas, liquids or chars [10,11].…”