Kinetic Modeling Of Nutshells Pyrolytic Products

Pyrolysis plays an integrated role in the thermochemical biomass conversion processes. Studying the thermal degradation of waste materials is an important requirement for the design and operation of pyrolysis reactors. The study presented here was conducted to develop a model to predict the pyrolytic products of nutshell pyrolysis under non-isothermal conditions based on the experimental data. The models were numerically solved using Matlab functions based on the 4th-order Runge-Kutta method. The pyrolysis was simulated over the temperature range of 100–600℃ to assess pyrolysis product yields. This model agrees well with experimental results for the temperature up to 400°C where biomass's primary pyrolysis occurs.