Journal
BIORESOURCES
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 1107-1121Publisher
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV DEPT WOOD & PAPER SCI
DOI: 10.15376/biores.13.1.1107-1121
Keywords
White poplar; Microwave pyrolysis; Heating rate; Biochar yield; Response surface
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- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Conversion and the Process Integration Open Research Funded Projects [JPELBCPI2015002]
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White poplar is an important biomass resource because of its high yield and fast-growing characteristics. Experiments were conducted to study the effects of microwave power, moisture content, and particle size on the heating rate and biochar yield. A Central Composite Design (CCD) was used to optimize the biochar yield. The CCD results showed that a maximum temperature-increasing rate of 2.71 degrees C/s was obtained with a microwave power of 2 kW and a small particle size of 100-mesh. High power, small size, and high moisture content would benefit the increase of the heating rate. An optimum biochar yield of 0.905 kg per kg poplar was obtained with a microwave power of 3 kW, moisture content of 1%, and temperature of 500 degrees C.
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