JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS, cilt.114, ss.68-78, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
Pyrolysis experiments of paulownia wood (P. tomentose) were performed in a fixed-bed reactor under static and nitrogen atmospheres. The effects of the final pyrolysis temperature (623-873 K), heating rate (10 and 50 K min(-1)), particle size (0.224-1.8 mm), and sweep gas flow rate (100-300 mL min(-1)) were investigated on the pyrolysis conversion and product yields. The maximum pyrolysis conversion of 77.4% was obtained at a final pyrolysis temperature of 773K. The highest liquid product yield of 54.0 wt% was obtained at the pyrolysis temperature of 773 K with a heating rate of 50 K min(-1), particle size of 0.425