scholarly journals Improvement of bio-oil yield and quality in co-pyrolysis of corncobs and high density polyethylene in a fixed bed reactor at low heating rate

2016 ◽  
Vol 162 (1) ◽  
pp. 012011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Supramono ◽  
S Lusiani
2014 ◽  
Vol 695 ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
K. Azduwin ◽  
Mohd Jamir Mohd Ridzuan ◽  
A.R. Mohamed ◽  
S.M. Hafis

Increasing demand of fossils fuel for many purposes has cause for the limited sources which lead to the finding for new alternative energy based on biomass because of its sustainable properties. Palm-pressed fibre (PPF) is the biomass waste from palm oil processing which has use minimally for boiler to generate heat. The pyrolysis of PPF in a fixed-bed reactor has the potential as an alternative for its conversion into bio-oil, bio-char and gas. The characterization of PPF where involves elemental analysis, proximate analysis, calorific analysis and component analysis. The pyrolysis of the PPF was performed in the fixed-bed reactor at temperature between 300 - 700 °C and heating rate in the range of 10-70 °C/min with constant flow of nitrogen at 100 cm3/min and 30 minutes hold time.The highest bio-oil yield produced was 44.98% at optimum temperature 500°C and heating rate 30°C/min. By analysis the bio-oil using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), it was found to contains alkenes, ketones, polymeric hydroxyl compound, carboxylic acid, aldehyde and water.


Clean Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-535
Author(s):  
Henry Oghenero Orugba ◽  
Jeremiah Lekwuwa Chukwuneke ◽  
Henry Chukwuemeka Olisakwe ◽  
Innocent Eteli Digitemie

Abstract The low yield and poor fuel properties of bio-oil have made the pyrolysis production process uneconomic and also limited bio-oil usage. Proper manipulation of key pyrolysis variables is paramount in order to produce high-quality bio-oil that requires less upgrading. In this research, the pyrolysis of pig hair was carried out in a fixed-bed reactor using a calcium oxide catalyst derived from calcination of turtle shells. In the pyrolysis process, the influence of three variables—temperature, heating rate and catalyst weight—on two responses—bio-oil yield and its higher heating value (HHV)—were investigated using Response Surface Methodology. A second-order regression-model equation was obtained for each response. The optimum yield of the bio-oil and its HHV were obtained as 51.03% and 21.87 mJ/kg, respectively, at 545oC, 45.17oC/min and 2.504 g of pyrolysis temperature, heating rate and catalyst weight, respectively. The high R2 values of 0.9859 and 0.9527, respectively, obtained for the bio-oil yield and its HHV models using analysis of variance revealed that the models can adequately predict the bio-oil yield and its HHV from the pyrolysis process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 849 ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Siti Jamilatun ◽  
Aster Rahayu ◽  
Yano Surya Pradana ◽  
Budhijanto ◽  
Rochmadi ◽  
...  

Nowadays, energy consumption has increased as a population increases with socio-economic developments and improved living standards. Therefore, it is necessary to find a replacement for fossil energy with renewable energy sources, and the potential to develop is biofuels. Bio-oil, water phase, gas, and char products will be produced by utilizing Spirulina platensis (SPR) microalgae extraction residue as pyrolysis raw material. The purpose of this study is to characterize pyrolysis products and bio-oil analysis with GC-MS. Quality fuel is good if O/C is low, H/C is high, HHV is high, and oxygenate compounds are low, but aliphatic and aromatic are high. Pyrolysis was carried out at a temperature of 300-600°C with a feed of 50 grams in atmospheric conditions with a heating rate of 5-35°C/min, the equipment used was a fixed-bed reactor. The higher the pyrolysis temperature, the higher the bio-oil yield will be to an optimum temperature, then lower. The optimum temperature of pyrolysis is 550°C with a bio-oil yield of 23.99 wt%. The higher the pyrolysis temperature, the higher the H/C, the lower O/C. The optimum condition was reached at a temperature of 500°C with the values of H/C, and O/C is 1.17 and 0.47. With an increase in temperature of 300-600°C, HHV increased from 11.64 MJ/kg to 20.63 MJ/kg, the oxygenate compound decreased from 85.26 to 37.55 wt%. Aliphatics and aromatics increased, respectively, from 5.76 to 36.72 wt% and 1.67 to 6.67 wt%.


2012 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 154-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandrina Campanella ◽  
Rachel Muncrief ◽  
Michael P. Harold ◽  
David C. Griffith ◽  
Norman M. Whitton ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
M. Sigit Cahyono ◽  
Ucik Ika Fenti

The objective of the research was to investigate the influence of heating rate and temperature in the reactor on the yield and properties of pyrolysis oil obtained from waste plastic bag, that is considered as low-density polyethylene (LDPE). The experiments were performed in fixed bed reactor equipped with a steam atomizing burner, a temperature controller, and a condenser. Approximately, the amount of ten kilograms of waste plastic bag loaded into the reactor chamber and then pyrolyzed using the temperature between 250 and 450°C and heating rates of 5 to 15°C/min. The results showed that as the oil yield decreased, the heating rate increased. Alternatively, the oil yield increased with temperature and the wax content decreases as the temperature increases. The highest quantity of pyrolysis oil was produced from waste plasctic bag is 45%, in the temperature 450<sup>o</sup>C and the heating rate 15°C/min, with wax content of 25%, solid char of 12 % and non-condensable gas of 41%. The physical properties of oil were evaluated and compared to those of diesel oil. The analysis results showed that the oil product’s properties from pyrolysis of the waste plastic bag in temperature 450<sup>0</sup>C, were relatively closer to those of diesel oil with caloric value 11,043 kcal/kg, specific gravity of 0.812, kinematic viscosity 2.80 mm<sup>2</sup>/s, and flash point of 27<sup>o</sup>C.


2014 ◽  
Vol 925 ◽  
pp. 115-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Rahayu Mohamed ◽  
Zainab Hamzah ◽  
Mohamed Zulkali Mohamed Daud

Malaysia is well-known as one of the main producer and exporter of palm oil. With the high production of crude palm oil (CPO), huge amount of empty fruit bunch was generated as by-products. The abundant amount of EFB produced required careful waste management procedures. Pyrolysis is thermochemical decomposition of biomass in inert environment towards its conversion into bio-oil, bio-char and gas. In this study, the pyrolysis of empty fruit bunch (EFB) was conducted using a fixed bed reactor. The pertinent process parameters such as pyrolysis temperature, particle sizes and heating rates were investigated via the determination of the percentage product yields such as bio-oil, bio-char and gas. The first series of experiment was conducted to determine the effect of pyrolysis temperatures. The final pyrolysis temperature was varied at 300, 400, 500, 600 and 700 °C at constant heating rates and the nitrogen flowrates of 30 °C/min and 100 cm3/min respectively. It was determined that at pyrolysis temperature of 500 °C maximum bio-oil yield of 35.00 % was obtained with bio-char and gas yield of 26.98 and 38.02% respectively. In the second series of experiment, the effect of particle sizen was studied. The EFB particle was varied at <125, 125-250, 250-500, 500-710 and 710-1000 μm. The pyrolysis temperature was fixed at 500 °C with nitrogen flowrate of 100 cm3/min and heating rate of 30 °C/min. It was determined that using EFB particle size of 250-500 μm, the maximum bio-oil of 38.52% was achieved with bio-char and gas yields of 25.06 % and 36.42% respectively. In the third series of experiment to determine the effect of heating rates, the heating rates was varied at 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 °C/min towards the final pyrolysis temperature of 500 °C with constant nitrogen flowrates of 100 cm3/min. The results obtained showed that the highest amount of bio-oil of 40.81% was obtained when the heating rate of 20 °C/min was used. The bio-char and gas yield obtained were 24.69% and 34.50% respectively.


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