pyrolysis – TechConnect Briefs

Uniform Melt State Process For The Production Of Nanostructured Materials

Redjdal M., Hadidi K., Sundaram S.K., Amastan LLC, US

Existing processes for the production of nanostructured composite materials suffer from non-homogeneity of feedstock and non uniformity of thermal processing path. Amastan’s UniMelt™ process solves both problems through the use of uniform temperature profile microwave [...]

Microwave-mediated Pyrolysis of Biomass

Gronnow M.J., Budarin V.L., Fan J., Shuttleworth P.S., MacQuarrie D.J., Clark J.H., Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, UK

Biomass can be seen as the oil well of the future; a renewable, widely distributed resource that should be increasingly exploited for the production of heat and power, liquid fuels as well as chemicals and [...]

Microwave-mediated Pyrolysis of Biomass

Gronnow M.J., Budarin V.L., Fan J., Shuttleworth P.S., MacQuarrie D.J., Clark J.H., Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, UK

Biomass can be seen as the oil well of the future; a renewable, widely distributed resource that should be increasingly exploited for the production of heat and power, liquid fuels as well as chemicals and [...]

Hydrocarbon production via biomass pyrolysis and hydrodeoxygenation

Steele P., Gajjela S., Yu F., Gresham G., Mississippi State University, US

Bio-oils produced from pyrolysis of biomass are chemically complex compounds. As fuels they have a number of negative properties such as high acidity, water content, variable viscosity and heating values about half that of diesel [...]

Hydrocarbon production via biomass pyrolysis and hydrodeoxygenation

Steele P., Gajjela S., Yu F., Gresham G., Mississippi State University, US

Bio-oils produced from pyrolysis of biomass are chemically complex compounds. As fuels they have a number of negative properties such as high acidity, water content, variable viscosity and heating values about half that of diesel [...]

Vertically aligned carbon nanowires (CNWs): Top-down approach using photolithography and pyrolysis

Lee J.A., Lee S-W., Lee S.S., Lee J.A., Lee S-W., Lee S.S., Lee J.A., Lee S-W., Lee S.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KR

Top-down approach for vertically aligned CNWs has not reported yet although it is necessary for immediate integration of CNWs with micro and nano systems. In this paper, vertically aligned pyrolyzed carbon nanowires (CNWs) is fabricated [...]

MWCNTS Production by Means of Pyrolysis of Polyethylene-Terephtalate in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed

Mastellone M.L., Arena U., Second University of Naples, IT

A bubbling fluidized bed reactor having 102mmID and realised in AISI 316L stainless steel has been used as pyrolyser under different operating conditions. The reactor has been operated at fixed fluidising velocity (U=0.16m/s) and at [...]

Microfabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Suspended Carbon Microstructures

Malladi K., Wang C., Madou M.J., Xue W., Cui T., University of California Irvine, US

The idea of suspended carbon micro/nanostructures has been researched by a few research groups ], however, controlled fabrication of suspended carbon micro/nano structures in desired positions and with the desired shape and dimension is still [...]

Fabrication of Suspended C-NEMS Structures by EB Writer and Pyrolysis Method

Malladi K., Wang C., Madou M., University of California Irvine, US

Recently suspended C-MEMS structures were fabricated by accurately controlling the processing parameter. However how to fabricate various suspended C-NEMS structures is still a big challenge. Here we successfully fabricated C-NEMS by UV/EB lithography and pyrolysis [...]

Cutting Fluorinated/Ozonated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Pyrolysis

Chen Z., Gu Z., Ziegler K., Chan C.K., Shaver J., Hauge R.H., Smalley R.E., Rice University, US

Fluorinated/ozonated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) was found to have been cut to short length by Pyrolysis and/or piranha treatment. Large scale cutting of SWNTs would lead to novel applications of nanotubes in microelectronics, biological imaging [...]