Abstract
Biomass can be seen as the oil well of the future; a renewable and widely distributed resource that should be increasingly exploited for the production of energy products with environmental, economic and social benefits. [1] One method by which the bio-energy carriers and chemicals can be obtained is through pyrolysis. Pyrolysis is a feedstock agnostic technique capable of deconstructing biopolymers into more useful chemical, gas, bio-oil and bio-char products. Microwave irradiation can interact with different types of biomass at low temperatures by comparison with conventional flash pyrolysis. Building on our original work in pyrolysis and biorefining, [2], [3], [4] studies have continued progressing into ligno-cellulosic components and whole biomasses, mechanistic and process conditions, process measurement, product analysis and scale-up. The aims of the work are to make a commercial scale and economically viable route to chemicals and bioenergy through microwave processing of biomass.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Technical Proceedings of the 2011 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2011 |
| Pages | 679-682 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 23 Nov 2011 |
| Event | Nanotechnology 2011: Electronics, Devices, Fabrication, MEMS, Fluidics and Computational - 2011 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2011 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: 13 Jun 2011 → 16 Jun 2011 |
Conference
| Conference | Nanotechnology 2011: Electronics, Devices, Fabrication, MEMS, Fluidics and Computational - 2011 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2011 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Boston, MA |
| Period | 13/06/11 → 16/06/11 |
Keywords
- Bio-char
- Bio-oil
- Biomass conversion
- Microwave
- Pyrolysis