Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 102, Issue 17, Pages 8232-8240Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.06.010
Keywords
Biochar; Biomass; Bio-oil; Microalgae; Pyrolysis
Funding
- Macquarie University Research Office
- Crucible Pty Ltd.
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Pyrolysis of biomass is a means to industrially manufacture renewable oil and gas, in addition to biochar for soil amendment and long-term carbon fixation. In this work, oil and char derived from the slow pyrolysis of the unicellular marine diatom Tetraselmis chui are analysed using a variety of techniques. The pyrolytic oil fraction exhibits a wide variety of fatty acids, alkanes, alkenes, amides, aldehydes, terpenes, pyrrolidinines, phytol and phenols, with a high heating value (HHV) of 28 MJ/kg. The biochar produced has a HHV of 14.5 MJ/kg and reveals a number of properties that are potentially valuable from an agronomic point of view, including high cation exchange capacity (CEC), large concentration of N, and a low C:N ratio. The quantity of C in T. chui biochar that can be expected to stabilise in soil amounts to approximately 9%/wt of the original feedstock, leading to a potential net reduction in atmospheric CO2. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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