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Thermogravimetry study of pyrolytic characteristics and kinetics of the giant wetland plant Phragmites australis

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The pyrolytic characteristics and kinetics of wetland plant Phragmites australis was investigated using thermogravimetric method from 50 to 800 °C in an inert argon atmosphere at different heating rates of 5, 10, 25, 30, and 50 °C min−1. The kinetic parameters of activation energy and frequency factor were deduced by appropriate methods. The results showed that three stages appeared in the thermal degradation process. The most probable mechanism functions were described, and the average apparent activation energy was deduced as 291.8 kJ mol−1, and corresponding pre-exponential factors were determined as well. The results suggested that the most probable reaction mechanisms could be described by different models within different temperature ranges. It showed that the apparent activation energies and the corresponding pre-exponential factors could be obtained at different conversion rates. The results suggested that the experimental results and kinetic parameters provided useful information for the design of pyrolytic processing system using P. australis as feedstock.

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21076117), and CAS International Partnership Program “Typical environment processes and their effects on resources,” and Outstanding young scholar fellowship of Shandong Province (JQ200914), and the Open Funding from the State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology in Shandong Agricultural University (2010KF06 and 2011KF14), and Projects of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (J09LC22 and J10LC15), and the Open Funding from the Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology (Kf201016), and Open Project Program of the Key Laboratory of Marine Bio-resources Sustainable Utilization (LMB101004), SCSIO, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Zhao, Huaxiao Yan, Congwang Zhang, Binbin Sun, Yan Zhang, Shuangshuang Dong & Yanhui Xue

  2. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-carbon Energy Chemical Engineering, Qingdao, 266590, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Zhao, Huaxiao Yan, Congwang Zhang, Binbin Sun, Yan Zhang, Shuangshuang Dong & Yanhui Xue

  3. Bioresources Lab, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

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Zhao, H., Yan, H., Zhang, C. et al. Thermogravimetry study of pyrolytic characteristics and kinetics of the giant wetland plant Phragmites australis . J Therm Anal Calorim 110, 611–617 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-011-2018-3

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