Pyrolysis Approach In Food Sustanability
Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures in an inert atmosphere. It involves a change of chemical composition. The word is coined from the Greek-derived elements pyro "fire" and lysis "separating". Pyrolysis is most commonly used in the treatment of organic materials. Lignocellulosic residues are mixed and burnt with coal to generate electricity. Presently, crude oil is replaced by bioethanol and biodiesel produced from biomass substrate. Pyrolysis of woody biomass to obtain pyroliginous acid was started hundreds of years ago, which has versatile applications. The range of products that can be derived from biomass is huge, prompting extent of research using different types of thermal conversion technologies, including pyrolysis, gasification, anaerobic digestion and hydrothermal processing. This provides insights about the stages of reaction during pyrolysis and the outcome of reaction conditions on the products. The process condition can offer a suitable environmentally increased energy for Commercial Purposes.
Lignocellulosic biomass is considered as a promising environmentally friendly substitute resource for carbon‐based fuels and chemicals. Existing global supply of energy depends on non‐renewable fuels such as oil, gas and coal formed naturally beneath the earth crust. However, the amount of fossil fuel is limited now. Due to the growing population of world, the consumption of energy per capita is increasing. Thus the inevitability for continuing alternative to generate the possible sources of energy is evident. Utilization of biomass to produce value‐added products is receiving great attention by researchers. Furthermore, the inorganic constituent of biomass is negligible and it contains minor quantity of nitrogen, sulphur and ash. Therefore, combustion of biopmass is advantageous as it produces less toxic gas such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and smoke compared to other conventional fuels. Even the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) can be controlled by recycling it by photosynthesis [1]. Though many theoretical methods were undertaken for the conversion in the short run; what is required are practical phase application and demonstration with appropriate calculation of material and energy balance. Industrial‐scale thermochemical production of liquids, bio‐oils, by fast or flash pyrolysis has been established.
Pyrolysis technology is very old and earlier it was first used for preparation of charcoal in Middle East and Southern Europe before 5500 years ago. This technique is used to produce tar for sealing boats Subsequently then, practice of pyrolysis processes have been growing and are extensively carried out for charcoal and coke fabrication. Burning of charcoal can produce intensively high temperature to melt tin with copper to obtain bronze. Consequently, pyrolysis has been getting further consideration as an effective technique for transforming biomass into bio‐oil throughout the modern eras. The eventual objective of pyrolysis is to yield high‐value energy products for contending with and gradually supplanting non‐renewable fossil fuels. It is required to transform biomass into bio fuels for uninterrupted usage in vehicles, trains, ships and aero-planes to substitute diesel and petrol. Additional improvement of pyrolysis technology is enduring to produce solid fuel like char or carbonaceous materials, syngas, etc. Typically a pyrolysis system unit contains the equipment for lignocellulosic residues pre‐processing, the pyrolysis reactor, and subsequent unit for downstream processing. Mainly it can be classified as units that produces only heat and biochar (using slow pyrolysis) or units that produce biochar and bio‐oils (using fast pyrolysis).
The utilization of food crops such as soybean, maize and sugarcane for producing ethanol and biodiesel may not endure for long since these crops are primarily cultivated for consumption. The need therefore arise for a more sustainable means of generating these materials from other sources such as biomass materials in addition to others already being researched into. However, these has proven to be feasible economically yet, and there is great hope on utilizing lignocellulosic biomass for this purpose through pyrolysis process even though it is still faced by some challenges. Some tangible efforts have been made to commercialize the utilization of biomass materials and other agricultural wastes in the generation of biofuels through fast pyrolysis process. These materials are readily available at little or no cost thereby making their utilization highly economical. It makes energy systems from the fuels produced more environmentally friendly, towards utilizing the chemicals that may be produced from the system as co‐products for other usage such as food smoking. These efforts have since led to production of biofuels from biomass materials. It is clear that fluidized bed reactor is mostly in use for production of bio‐oil using biomass while this is followed by other technologies.
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Due to the growing population of world, the consumption of energy per capita is increasing. Thus the inevitability for continuing alternative to generate the possible sources of energy is evident. Utilization of biomass to produce value‐added products is receiving great attention by researchers. Furthermore, the inorganic constituent of biomass is negligible and it contains minor quantity of nitrogen, sulphur and ash. Therefore, combustion of biopmass is advantageous as it produces less toxic gas such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and smoke compared to other conventional fuels. Carbon dioxide (CO2) fumes can be controlled by photosynthesis
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pyrolysis process has lot of advantages based on process parameter
optimization. However, this technology still needs to be updated with
respect to its commercial applications. In this chapter, emphasis has
been given to discuss the current status of pyrolysis technology and its
prospective for commercial applications for biofuel, syngas and biochar
production. Aspects of pyrolysis technology such as types of pyrolysis,
pyrolysis principles, biomass compositions and characteristics,
pyrolysis reactor design, pyrolysis products and their physiochemical
properties and economics of biofuel production are presented. We have
pointed out some of the inherent properties of bio‐oil that cause
complications for the end use of the products. Finally, we take a brief
look at some processes including catalytic pyrolysis process that aim to
valorize bio‐oil by conversion to higher value liquid fuel products.
The thermal decomposition process of pyrolysis using lignocellulosic
biomass takes place in the absence of oxygen under inert atmosphere. As
an inert atmosphere argon or nitrogen gas flow is usually needed. The
fundamental chemical reaction is very complex and consists of several
steps. The end products of biomass pyrolysis consist of biochar, bio‐oil
and gases. Pyrolysis process emits mainly methane, hydrogen, carbon
monoxide and carbon dioxide. The organic materials present in the
biomass substrate starts to decompose around 350–550°C and it can
proceed until 700–800°C without the presence of air/oxygen.
Biomass is mainly composed of long polymeric chain of cellulose,
lignin, hemicellulose, pectin. The larger molecules of
organic materials start to decompose to yield smaller molecules, which
are released from the process stream as gases, condensable vapours and solid char during pyrolysis process. The proportion of each end product depends on the temperature, time, heating rate, and pressure, types of precursors and reactor design and configuration. illustrates the decomposition process of main lignocellulosic residues at different temperature. The moisture content of biomass also plays a vital role in pyrolysis processes. The moisture content of the feedstock is 10% during fast pyrolysis process .Thus sludge derived from waste stream and meat‐processing wastes require drying before exposing them finally to pyrolysis environment. Less than 450°C when the heating rate is slow, the main yield is biochar. However at higher temperature that is more than 800°C when the heating rate is high then larger fraction of ash and gaseous products are produced.
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Overall the pyrolysis process can be classified as slow and fast
depending on the heating rate. In slow pyrolysis process, the time of
heating the biomass substrate to pyrolysis temperature is longer than
the time of retention of the substrate at characteristic pyrolysis
reaction temperature. However in fast pyrolysis, the initial heating
time of the precursors is smaller than the final retention time at
pyrolysis peak temperature. Based on medium, pyrolysis can be of another
two types namely hydrous pyrolysis and hydro‐pyrolysis. Slow and fast
pyrolysis is usually carried out in inert atmosphere whereas hydrous
pyrolysis is carried out in presence of water and hydro‐pyrolysis is
carried out in presence of hydrogen. The residence time of vapour in the
pyrolysis medium is longer for slow pyrolysis process. This process is
mainly used to produce char production. It can be further classified as
Carbonization and Conventional. On the contrary, the vapour residence
time is only for seconds or milliseconds. This type of pyrolysis, used
primarily for the production of bio‐oil and gas, is of two main types:
(1) flash and (2) ultra‐rapid. summarizes some basic characteristics of different types of pyrolysis process.
Pyrolysis, especially pyrolysis of coal, is an age‐long
activity but biomass pyrolysis is a completely new entrant. The process
is aimed to produce biofuel. In the garret process, solid waste
(Biomass) is allowed to mix with hot char and hot recycle gas in a
specially designed chamber. This is then followed by pyrolysis at high
temperature, usually above 800°C, and at a holding time of about 10 s.
After pyrolysis, the char is the removed while the liquid portion is
collected. The whole process can be summarized into three main steps: The
formation of turbulent gaseous stream by intermixing the carrier gas,
the solid biomass and the hot char using a designed mixing zone, passing
the gaseous steam into the pyrolysis chamber and allowing to go through
pyrolysis at temperature of about 800°C for about 10 s, and finally
removing the pyrolyzed gaseous stream from the pyrolysis chamber.
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