The production and evaluation of bio-oils from the pyrolysis of sunflower-oil cake

Gercel H.

BIOMASS & BIOENERGY, vol.23, no.4, pp.307-314, 2002 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 23 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2002
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s0961-9534(02)00053-3
  • Journal Name: BIOMASS & BIOENERGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.307-314
  • Keywords: biomass, sunflower-oil cake, fixed-bed reactor, pyrotysis, bio-oil, energy, FIXED-BED PYROLYSIS, EUPHORBIA-RIGIDA, BIOMASS PYROLYSIS, SAMPLE CONFIGURATION, STRUCTURAL-ANALYSIS, HYDROGEN PRESSURE, HYDROPYROLYSIS, YIELDS, WASTE, CELLULOSE
  • Anadolu University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Sunflower (Helianthus annus L.)-oil cake pyrolysis experiments were achieved in a fixed-bed tubular reactor. The effects of nitrogen flow rate and final pyrolysis temperature on the pyrolysis product yields and chemical compositions have been investigated. The maximum bio-oil yield of 48.69 wt% was obtained in nitrogen atmosphere with nitrogen flow rate of 100 cm(3) min(-1) and at a pyrolysis temperature of 550 degreesC with a heating rate of 5 degreesC s(-1). Chromatographic and spectroscopic studies on the pyrolytic oil showed that the oil obtained from sunflower-oil cake can be used as a renewable fuel and chemical feedstocks. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.