Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 344, Issue -, Pages 320-331Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2018.03.099
Keywords
Step pyrolysis; NOx precursors; Reaction pathways; Amide-N; N-pollution emission control
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51676195, 51661145022]
- Special Program for Key Basic Research of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2017B030308002]
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Step pyrolysis of N-rich industrial biowastes was used to explore decisive reaction pathways and regulatory mechanisms of NOx precursor formation. Three typical ones involving medium-density fiberboard waste (MFW), penicillin mycelia waste (PMW) and sewage sludge (SS) were employed to compare the formation characteristics of NOx precursors during one-step and two-step pyrolysis. Results demonstrated that considerable NH3-N pre-dominated NOx precursors for one-step pyrolysis at low temperatures, depending on primary pyrolysis of labile amide-N/inorganic-N in fuels. Meanwhile, NOx precursors differed in the increment of each species yield while resembled in the total yield of 20-45 wt.% among three samples at high temperatures, due to specific prevailing reaction pathways linking with distinctive amide-N types. Subsequently, compared with one-step pyrolysis uniformly (800 degrees C), by manipulating intensities of reaction pathways at different stages (selecting differential intermediate feedstocks), two-step pyrolysis was capable of minimizing NOx precursor-N yield by 36-43% with a greater impact on HCN-N (75-85%) than NH3-N (9-37%), demonstrating its great capacity on regulating the formation of NOx precursors for industrial biowaste pyrolysis. These observations were beneficial to develop effective insights into N-pollution emission control during their thermal reutilization.
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