Pyrolysis of glycerol over activated carbons for syngas production
By Y. Fernández, A. Arenillas, M. Diez, J. J. Pis, J. A. Menéndez. 2009
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Abstract The pyrolysis of glycerol was carried out over carbonaceous catalysts to produce synthesis gas (up to 81 vol.%). The catalytic effect of two activated carbons was tested and compared with quartz glass chips as packing materials in a fixed-bed reactor. The main advantage of using a carbonaceous catalyst seems to be its higher selectivity toward hydrogen, resulting in a synthesis gas with a greater H 2 /CO ratio. The influence of the heating method (electrical furnace and microwave oven) and temperature (from 400 to 900 °C) on the pyrolysis of glycerol over a selected activated carbon was also studied. As a result, an elevated gas fraction with a higher H 2 + CO composition was obtained under microwave heating, even at low temperatures. This proves that microwave heating could be used to upgrade the industrial surplus generated from bio-diesel production.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Catalysis
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- Influence of feed characteristics on the microwave-assisted pyrolysis used to produce syngas from biomass wastes (2011, methodology): “Conventional and multimode microwave systems have been previously described in [4–6] and in page 730 of Ref.”
- Microwave heating processes involving carbon materials (2010, unknown): “However, microwave-induced pyrolysis is possible if the raw material is mixed with an effective microwave receptor, such as certain metal oxides [73, 74] or carbon materials [50, 71, 72, 75-78].”