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Bio-Oil Production from Fast Pyrolysis of Cotton Stalk in Fluidized Bed Reactor

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Fast pyrolysis was used to convert waste biomass into bio-oil, which has a benefit of storage and transportation with the potential as a fossil oil substitute. Pakistani cotton stalk was pyrolyzed in a bench-scale bubbling fluidized bed reactor. The effect of reaction conditions such as temperature and feed size on the bio-oil, char and gas yields was investigated. The optimal pyrolysis temperature for the production of bio-oil was 490 °C which gave the maximum yield (36 wt%) of product at feed size of 1.0 mm. Bio-oil yield increased with the increase in temperature, while the yield of char decreased. The various properties of bio-oil attained under these pyrolysis conditions were defined. Chemical composition of bio-oil was determined using FTIR and GC–MS analysis, and major chemical compounds were phenols, carboxylic acids, ketones, aldehydes, furans and sugars.

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    Najaf Ali & Mahmood Saleem

  2. Centre for Coal Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Khurram Shahzad

  3. School of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Ali, N., Saleem, M., Shahzad, K. et al. Bio-Oil Production from Fast Pyrolysis of Cotton Stalk in Fluidized Bed Reactor. Arab J Sci Eng 40, 3019–3027 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-015-1801-z

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