Thermochemical characterisation of straws and high yielding perennial grasses

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 449-459

  Greenhalf, C E ^a   Nowakowski, D J ^a   Bridgwater, A V ^a   Titiloye, J ^a   Yates, N ^b   Riche, A ^b   Shield, I ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Kinetics; Py GC MS; Pyrolysis; Thermogravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA NAPUS; BUTANEDIOIC ACID; DECOMPOSITION PRODUCTS; DIMETHYL ESTERS; FAST PYROLYSIS; HEATING VALUE; INORGANIC CONTENT; KINETIC METHOD; LEVOGLUCOSAN; MULTI-HEATING; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PEAK AREA; PERENNIAL GRASS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; PY-GC-MS; PYROLYSIS-GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRIES; PYROLYTIC DECOMPOSITION; REED CANARY GRASS; VOLATILE DECOMPOSITION PRODUCTS; WHEAT STRAWS;

BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETICS; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PYROLYSIS;

THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; CROP YIELD; DICOTYLEDON; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRASS; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PYROLYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; STRAW; THERMOCHEMISTRY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; WHEAT;

BRASSICA NAPUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; POACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 82155203101     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2011.10.025     Document Type: Article

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