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Title: The effect of wood composition and supercritical CO2 extraction on charcoal production in ferroalloy industries

Abstract

This work demonstrates that the integration of supercritical carbon dioxide extraction with slow pyrolysis is an effective method for the production of value-added chemicals and charcoal that is an attractive alternative to coke for industry. Integration of technologies is key for the development of holistic biorefineries that exploit all parts of the biomass feedstock and generate little or ideally no waste. In fact, the use of waste or low valued wood fractions is attractive due to their plentiful abundance and lack of exploitation. Supercritical carbon dioxide has been demonstrated to be effective at the removal of over half of extractives from low quality wood and forestry wastes, which can account for up to 11 wt %, of the dried biomass in waste needles. High extractive yields by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction illustrates the potential of utilizing low quality wood as an alternative feedstock for the sustainable production of value-added chemicals. We report high yields of steroids and derivatives, terpenes and other plant metabolites were obtained in the extracts of needles, branches and bark. Importantly, supercritical carbon dioxide extraction had little impact neither on the physical properties of original wood nor on the yield of solid charcoal. This indicates that extractionmore » by supercritical carbon dioxide can be used as a method for adding further value to the process by removal of bio-based chemicals, whilst still maintaining the yield of the solid fuel product. Moreover, the heat treatment temperature and supercritical carbon dioxide extraction had a significant impact on the tar yields during pyrolysis, leading to an increase in naphthalene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic and phenolic fractions with greater temperature. These results are promising as they show that the charcoal obtained from this renewable feedstock could be used as an alternative to fossil-based coke in applications including ferroalloy industries.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5];  [6];  [7]; ORCiD logo [8]
  1. Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)
  2. Khon Kaen Univ. (Thailand)
  3. Univ. of York (United Kingdom)
  4. Luleå Univ. of Technology (Sweden)
  5. Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umea (Sweden)
  6. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); Leidos Research Support Team, Morgantown, WV (United States)
  7. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
  8. Univ. of Limerick (Ireland)
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National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); FORMAS; Kempe Foundation; Bjorn Wahlstroms; Jernkontoret Stiftelsen; Thailand Research Fund; Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation
OSTI Identifier:
1635627
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Energy
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 193; Journal ID: ISSN 0360-5442
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; biorefinery; pyrolysis; supercritical; sterols; solid fuels

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Surup, Gerrit Ralf, Hunt, Andrew J., Attard, Thomas, Budarin, Vitaliy L., Forsberg, Fredrik, Arshadi, Mehrdad, Abdelsayed, Victor, Shekhawat, Dushyant, and Trubetskaya, Anna. The effect of wood composition and supercritical CO2 extraction on charcoal production in ferroalloy industries. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2019.116696.
Surup, Gerrit Ralf, Hunt, Andrew J., Attard, Thomas, Budarin, Vitaliy L., Forsberg, Fredrik, Arshadi, Mehrdad, Abdelsayed, Victor, Shekhawat, Dushyant, & Trubetskaya, Anna. The effect of wood composition and supercritical CO2 extraction on charcoal production in ferroalloy industries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.116696
Surup, Gerrit Ralf, Hunt, Andrew J., Attard, Thomas, Budarin, Vitaliy L., Forsberg, Fredrik, Arshadi, Mehrdad, Abdelsayed, Victor, Shekhawat, Dushyant, and Trubetskaya, Anna. Mon . "The effect of wood composition and supercritical CO2 extraction on charcoal production in ferroalloy industries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.116696. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1635627.
@article{osti_1635627,
title = {The effect of wood composition and supercritical CO2 extraction on charcoal production in ferroalloy industries},
author = {Surup, Gerrit Ralf and Hunt, Andrew J. and Attard, Thomas and Budarin, Vitaliy L. and Forsberg, Fredrik and Arshadi, Mehrdad and Abdelsayed, Victor and Shekhawat, Dushyant and Trubetskaya, Anna},
abstractNote = {This work demonstrates that the integration of supercritical carbon dioxide extraction with slow pyrolysis is an effective method for the production of value-added chemicals and charcoal that is an attractive alternative to coke for industry. Integration of technologies is key for the development of holistic biorefineries that exploit all parts of the biomass feedstock and generate little or ideally no waste. In fact, the use of waste or low valued wood fractions is attractive due to their plentiful abundance and lack of exploitation. Supercritical carbon dioxide has been demonstrated to be effective at the removal of over half of extractives from low quality wood and forestry wastes, which can account for up to 11 wt %, of the dried biomass in waste needles. High extractive yields by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction illustrates the potential of utilizing low quality wood as an alternative feedstock for the sustainable production of value-added chemicals. We report high yields of steroids and derivatives, terpenes and other plant metabolites were obtained in the extracts of needles, branches and bark. Importantly, supercritical carbon dioxide extraction had little impact neither on the physical properties of original wood nor on the yield of solid charcoal. This indicates that extraction by supercritical carbon dioxide can be used as a method for adding further value to the process by removal of bio-based chemicals, whilst still maintaining the yield of the solid fuel product. Moreover, the heat treatment temperature and supercritical carbon dioxide extraction had a significant impact on the tar yields during pyrolysis, leading to an increase in naphthalene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic and phenolic fractions with greater temperature. These results are promising as they show that the charcoal obtained from this renewable feedstock could be used as an alternative to fossil-based coke in applications including ferroalloy industries.},
doi = {10.1016/j.energy.2019.116696},
journal = {Energy},
number = ,
volume = 193,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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