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Fast pyrolysis, in combination with torrefaction pretreatment, was used to convert tobacco residues to value-added bio-fuels and chemicals. Tobacco plant residues were torrefied at 220, 260, and 300 °C, before being pyrolyzed at 450, 500, 550, and 600 °C in a rotating blade ablative reactor under vacuum conditions to test the effects on product yields. With torrefaction, tobacco residues thermally decomposed 20-25% w/w at low temperatures. Torrefaction and pyrolysis temperatures were found to markedly affect pyrolytic product yields of bio-chars and bio-oils, while having no effect on gas-phase products. Bio-oil yields exhibited a direct relation with pyrolysis temperature and an inverse relation with torrefaction temperature. Bio-oils produced were separated into light and heavy oils and analyzed by GC-MS, and1H and13C NMR. Nicotine was found to be the main compound in the light and heavy oils along with several phenols and cresols in the heavy oil.
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RSC Advances, Issue 58, 2020, pages 34986-34995.
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© The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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Khuenkaeo, N., MacQueen, B., Onsree, T., Daiya, S., Tippayawong, N., & Lauterbach, J. (2020). Bio-oils from vacuum ablative pyrolysis of torrefied tobacco residues. RSC Advances, 10(58), 34986-34995. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ra06014c