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Kinetic modelling of the pyrolysis of Miscanthus × Giganteus from the thermogravimetric analysis of its fractionated components

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In this paper the thermal behaviour of Miscanthus × Giganteus (M×G) is studied by thermogravimetric analysis. In order to characterise the thermal behaviour of its cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, the raw M×G material was treated sequentially by water, H2SO4 and KOH. The global kinetic parameters for each component were determined by subsequent modelling of the TG data with the Ozawa-Flynn-Wall method and multivariate non-linear regression. It is found that the global pyrolysis of M×G can be satisfactorily described using a six steps-kinetic scheme. The analytical method proposed here can be probably extended without too many efforts to other biomass products.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the French government (ACI “Biomasters”—MENRT) and by the city of Saint Avold (France) “projet Miscanthus.”

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  1. Laboratoire de Chimie et Applications (EA 3471), Université de Metz- Rue Victor Demange, 57500, Saint-Avold, France

    Salvatore Collura, Bruno Azambre & Jean-Victor Weber

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Correspondence to Bruno Azambre.

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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10311-006-0077-7

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Collura, S., Azambre, B. & Weber, JV. Kinetic modelling of the pyrolysis of Miscanthus × Giganteus from the thermogravimetric analysis of its fractionated components. Environ Chem Lett 3, 95–99 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-005-0007-0

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