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MOHAMMED, Isah Yakub, KABIR KAZI, Feroz, YUSUP, Suzana, ALABA, Peter Adeniyi, SANI, Yahaya Muhammad and ABAKR, Yousif Abdalla (2016). Catalytic Intermediate Pyrolysis of Napier Grass in a Fixed Bed Reactor with ZSM-5, HZSM-5 and Zinc-Exchanged Zeolite-A as the Catalyst. Energies, 9 (4), p. 246.
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Abstract
The environmental impact from the use of fossil fuel cum depletion of the known fossil oil reserves has led to increasing interest in liquid biofuels made from renewable biomass. This study presents the first experimental report on the catalytic pyrolysis of Napier grass, an underutilized biomass source, using ZSM-5, 0.3HZSM-5 and zinc exchanged zeolite-A catalyst. Pyrolysis was conducted in fixed bed reactor at 600˝C, 30˝C/min and 7 L/min nitrogen flow rate. The effect of catalyst-biomass ratio was evaluated with respect to pyrolysis oil yield and composition. Increasing the catalyst loading from 0.5 to 1.0 wt % showed no significant decrease in the bio-oil yield, particularly, the organic phase and thereafter decreased at catalyst loadings of 2.0 and 3.0 wt %. Standard analytical methods were used to establish the composition of the pyrolysis oil, which was made up of various aliphatic hydrocarbons, aromatics and other valuable chemicals and varied greatly with the surface acidity and pore characteristics of the individual catalysts. This study has demonstrated that pyrolysis oil with high fuel quality and value added chemicals can be produced from pyrolysis of Napier grass over acidic zeolite based catalysts.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.3390/en9040246 |
| Page Range: | p. 246 |
| Depositing User: | Feroz Kabir |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2016 08:53 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 04:09 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12086 |
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