Fuels and chemicals from woody biomass program. Program plan FY82-86

This paper reviews co-pyrolysis processes of different researchers and institutions, depicts the co-pyrolysis process of biomass and plastic wastes, coal and refuse plastic and coal and woody biomass, and makes recommendations for different processes. This article summarizes different researches on co-pyrolysis for product quantity and properties in different parameters such as waste blends and temperature,reaction time,pressure etc. We suggest that radical reactions between the co-pyrolytic materials are primarily responsible for the observed behavior.and that co-pyrolysis not only solves the H/C ratio but decrease reaction temperature and increased product content and improved product properties and its behavior as a fuel.

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In Situ Observation of Catalyzed Gasification of Graphite by Nickel

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100097090 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

pp. 76-77

Author(s):

R. T. K. Baker ◽

R. D. Sherwood

Keyword(s):

Objective Lens ◽

In Situ Observation ◽

Gas Flows ◽

Catalytic Gasification ◽

Television Camera ◽

Viewing Screen ◽

Fuels And Chemicals ◽

Gasification Of Carbon ◽

Transmission Microscope

The catalytic gasification of carbon at high temperature by microscopic size metal particles is of fundamental importance to removal of coke deposits and conversion of refractory hydrocarbons into fuels and chemicals. The reaction of metal/carbon/gas systems can be observed by controlled atmosphere electron microscopy (CAEM) in an 100 KV conventional transmission microscope. In the JEOL gas reaction stage model AGl (Fig. 1) the specimen is positioned over a hole, 200μm diameter, in a platinum heater strip, and is interposed between two apertures, 75μm diameter. The control gas flows across the specimen and exits through these apertures into the specimen chamber. The gas is further confined by two apertures, one in the condenser and one in the objective lens pole pieces, and removed by an auxiliary vacuum pump. The reaction zone is <1 mm thick and is maintained at gas pressure up to 400 Torr and temperature up to 1300<C as measured by a Pt-Pt/Rh 13% thermocouple. Reaction events are observed and recorded on videotape by using a Philips phosphor-television camera located below a hole in the center of the viewing screen. The overall resolution is greater than 2.5 nm.

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