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Pyrolysis technologies for pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) peel wastes. Prospects in the bioenergy sector
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2019.
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Abstract
- An unpublished low-cost industrial biomass waste, pomegranate peel, as alternative and sustainable fuel source was studied. A horizontal tubular furnace of original design for conventional and flash pyrolysis was carried out. The bio-char yields from both processes were similar, but the bio-oil and bio-gas yields were higher in flash pyrolysis, depending on the temperature. The bio-char obtained show that it could be used as a fuel (higher heating values ≥ 28.0 MJ/kg) and as a potential precursor of activated carbon. It was also found that the lower temperature of the flash pyrolysis was, the greater the bio-oil yield (∼53%) and that the higher was, the greater the biogas yield (∼50%). The bio-oil from conventional pyrolysis has a predominantly furanic nature and contained significant amounts of the phenols and benzenes. In contrast, the bio-oil from flash pyrolysis is similar to that of “anthracene oil”, both of them being composed mainly of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The bio-gas obtained by flash pyrolysis is of a higher quality than that obtained by conventional pyrolysis because it has a lower CO2 content (32.4% vs 66.6%) and higher syngas content (CO + H2) (50.8% vs 26.8%). Flash pyrolysis is better in CH4 production (11.6% vs 4.6%).
- Subjects :
- 020209 energy
Conventional pyrolysis
Biomass
02 engineering and technology
Bio-fuels
Pomegranate peels
Biogas
Bioenergy
Biochar
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
0601 history and archaeology
Bio-char
060102 archaeology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Chemistry
06 humanities and the arts
Pulp and paper industry
Flash pyrolysis
Biofuel
Industrial biomass waste
Pyrolysis
Syngas
Activated carbon
medicine.drug
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....983341988e62e84ca78691ca55f7d742