Journal
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaap.2019.05.003
Keywords
Pyrolysis; Coking coal; High ash Indian coal; Coal tar; Microwave
Funding
- Tata Steel Ltd.
- Department of Science and Technology, India
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Pyrolysis conditions and mechanism greatly influence the quality of tar and char from coal, which eventually determine their further usage. This work investigates the pyrolysis of three coking coals and a non-coking high ash Indian coal via microwave-assisted and conventional heating, and the influence of heating rate, coal type, and heating mechanism on product yields and tar composition. Microwave pyrolysis experiments were conducted in a home-built microwave reactor, and analytical pyrolysis experiments were conducted in a Pyroprobe (R) interfaced with gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (Py-GC/MS). The tar yields from microwave pyrolysis of coking coals were similar (similar to 7 wt.%), while it was slightly high from high ash Indian coal (similar to 11 wt.%). Char yields from both microwave and analytical pyrolysis were similar (78 +/- 1.5 wt.%). Microwave pyrolysis tars were rich in naphthalene derivatives and polyaromatics with more than 45% selectivity, while analytical pyrolysis tar was rich in monoaromatics (> 30%). There was no significant variation in the selectivities of other organic fractions. High selectivity of polyaromatics in microwave pyrolysis tar is due to the generation of localized hotspots, which led to excessive cracking of primary pyrolysis vapors. The higher heating value (HHV) of microwave pyrolysis tar was 32-33 MJ kg(-1), while that of analytical pyrolysis tar was higher (35-36 MJ kg(-1)), which is attributed to the presence of more monoaromatics in the latter. Hydrogen and methane were the major components in the gaseous fraction. Coal chars were characterized using different techniques, and they were rich in carbon (approximate to 80 wt.%) with high energy content (29 MJ kg(-1)).
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