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Production Of Activated Carbons From Pyrolytic Char For Environmental Applications, Anastasia Colomba
Production Of Activated Carbons From Pyrolytic Char For Environmental Applications, Anastasia Colomba
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Biomass pyrolysis has the potential to become a major component of future biorefineries, since biomass is cracked to produce gases, liquid products (bio-oil) and solid products (bio-char). In order for the process to be economically feasible, it is necessary to obtain the maximum value from each stream, thus no by-product can be regarded as a waste.
Bio-char is normally regarded as a by-product of fast pyrolysis, which is optimized to target bio-oil production. However, there are many potentially attractive applications for it: for example, it can be used for the production of activated carbons, which are the most commonly used …