Pyrolysis reaction characteristics of Korean pine (Pinus Koraiensis) nut shell

Published Date
November 2014, Vol.110:435–441, doi:10.1016/j.jaap.2014.10.01

Author 

Young-Min Kim ^a,b

Seungdo Kim ^c,,

Tae Uk Han ^c

Young-Kwon Park ^b,d

Chuichi Watanabe ^a

aFrontier Laboratories Ltd., 1-8-14, Koriyama 963-8862, Fukushima, Japan

bGraduate School of Energy and Environmental System Engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul 130-743, Republic of Korea

cDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Biotechnology, Hallym University, Chuncheon 200-702, Republic of Korea

dSchool of Environmental engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul 130-743, Republic of Korea

Received 25 February 2014. Accepted 14 October 2014. Available online 27 October 2014. 

Highlights

• Pyrolysis of waste Korean pine nut shell (KPNS) was performed using by TGA and Py–GC/MS.
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  The pyrolysis of KPNS would be accounted for three independent decomposition reactions of hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin.
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  Large amounts of phenolic compounds were produced due to the high lignin content of KPNS.

Abstract 

This paper elucidates the pyrolysis characteristics of waste Korean pine, Pinus Koraiensis, nut shell (KPNS). Thermogravimetric analysis was performed for kinetic analysis. Pyrolyzer–gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py–GC/MS) was used to analysis the product distributions. In line with the kinetic analysis results, the evolved gas analysis–MS (EGA–MS) results clearly showed that the pyrolysis reaction of waste KPNS can be characterized by three independent reactions of hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin followed by a stabilization reaction of solid intermediates formed by a pyrolysis reaction of the three major components. The multi shot-GC/MS results showed that there are specific compounds from the pyrolytic decomposition of the three major components. Acetic acid, levoglucosan, and phenol compounds were the specific decomposition products of hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin, respectively. The extract ion thermograms suggested that the lignin of waste KPNS is likely to decompose first to yield lignin monomer and intermediates. The monomer appears to have been converted to guaiacols (eugenol and 4-vinylguaiacol), which are decomposed further to produce pyrocatechols, cresols and phenols. The intermediates were also decomposed to pyrocatechols, cresols, and phenols. At the higher temperature region (>600 °C), aromatics were released due to the stabilization process of the solid intermediate to yield char.

Keywords

Waste Korean pine nut shell

Pyrolysis characteristics

Independent reactions

TGA

Py–GC/MS

Lignin

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