This is a study of the behavior of the species of bamboo Guadua angustifolia Kunth during oxidative pyrolysis. Thus, thermogravimetric analysis of G. angustifolia combustion in an oxygen flow rate of 50 cm3/min and at a heating rate of 10 ºC/min was carried out. Moreover, the combustion profile...

This study aimed to explore the combustion kinetics of organic matter in Huadian oil shale using thermogravimetric analysis. Increases in particle size or heating rate shifted the combustion process to a higher temperature, because of mass transfer resistance and thermal hysteresis. An...

Electrogenesis in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is a promising approach to extract useful energy from sewage sludge. However, its impact on ultimate sludge disposal (e.g., incineration) has not been well evaluated. In the present work, thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry were...

The walnut shell with particle size less than 0.154 mm pyrolysis mass loss behaviour was studied at different heating rates (5, 10, 20, 30, 40°C/min) using pyris1 thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) instrument. Results showed that the activation energies of walnut shell pyrolysis under the...

A novel procedure to perform carbon dioxide (CO2) gasification studies was tested with two different Alberta coals and compared to the most common procedures using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The designed experiments indicate that maximum reaction rates reported in the literature were...

This work describes the production of biodiesel from Jatropha curcas oil. The kernel samples provided by Embrapa-PI, were first crushed in a blender and then subjected to extraction with hexane. The oil yield was between 54.71 ± 0.47 and 64.16 ± 2.88%. The J. curcas oil was then submitted...

As one of the abundant sources of biomass, palm fiber was investigated to convert into liquid and gas products through pyrolysis. Pyrolysis characteristics of palm fiber were studied by using thermogravimetric analysis in the temperature range of 30–800 °C with the various heating rates of...