Study on the Staged and Direct Fast Pyrolysis Behavior of Waste Pine Sawdust Using High Heating Rate TG-FTIR and Py-GC/MS
Jinhong Zhang, Daniel Takyi Sekyere, Noah Niwamanya, Yansheng Huang, Andrew Barigye, Yuanyu Tian
Abstract
is the major deoxygenation route. Cracking mainly occurred at the 450 °C stage with phenols, ketones, aldehydes, and sugars as the main products. The product distributions for different stages are significantly different; the selectivity of aldehydes decreased, while phenols showed an upward trend with an increase in pyrolysis temperature. Ketones and sugars reached their peak values at 450 °C. The changes in the molecular composition of each stage helped to understand the pyrolysis process. Compared with the staged pyrolysis, the direct pyrolysis process had higher selectivity of acids, aldehydes, esters, and sugars and lower selectivity of phenols, ketones, and alcohols.