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Role of Reaction Temperature on Pyrolysis of Cotton Residue

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Cotton production is accompanied by generation of huge amounts of residue all over the world. Slow pyrolysis of cotton residue has been carried out under nitrogen atmosphere at temperatures of 300, 350, 400 and 450 °C. Maximum bio-oil yield of 38 wt% was obtained at 400 °C. The organic fraction of bio-oil has been characterised using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Bio-oil contains phenolic compounds which are mostly derived from lignin fraction. The bio-char characterisation using FT-IR, powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) indicate the aromatic structure of bio-char. The gas characterisation indicates that decarboxylation and decarbonylation reactions have majorly occurred during pyrolysis.

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The authors thank The Director, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, for his constant encouragement and support. RS thanks Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India, for providing Senior Research Fellowship (SRF). The authors thank CSIR in the form of XII Five Year Plan project (CSC0116/BioEn) and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for providing financial support.

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    Bhavya B. Krishna, Bijoy Biswas, Jitendra Kumar, Rawel Singh & Thallada Bhaskar

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    Bhavya B. Krishna, Rawel Singh & Thallada Bhaskar

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Krishna, B.B., Biswas, B., Kumar, J. et al. Role of Reaction Temperature on Pyrolysis of Cotton Residue. Waste Biomass Valor 7, 71–78 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-015-9440-x

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