Pretreating biomass via demineralisation and torrefaction to improve the quality of crude pyrolysis oil

Energy

Volumn 109, Issue , 2016, Pages 481-494

  Wigley, Tansy ^a   Yip, Alex C K ^a   Pang, Shusheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acid leaching; Bio oil; Demineralisation; Pretreatments; Pyrolysis; Torrefaction

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CATALYSTS; LEACHING; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ACID LEACHING; BIO OIL; DEMINERALISATION; PRE-TREATMENTS; TORREFACTION;

PYROLYSIS;

ACETIC ACID; ACETYLENE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRUDE OIL; FORMIC ACID; LEACHING; ORGANIC ACID; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84969724125     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.04.096     Document Type: Article

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