Título: | STUDY OF THE THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF GREEN COCONUT FIBER IN THE PRESENCE OF A NANO STRUCTURED CATALYST | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
FELIPE ZANONE RIBEIRO MONTEIRO |
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Colaborador(es): |
FRANCISCO JOSE MOURA - Orientador ROGERIO NAVARRO CORREIA DE SIQUEIRA - Coorientador |
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Catalogação: | 06/FEV/2018 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32928&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32928&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.32928 | ||||||||||||
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With increasing political-environmental concern, it becomes imperative to develop efficient processes in economic and energy terms for the sustainable production of fuels and chemical products. Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a process for the transformation of organic materials such as bio-waste or biomass
into crude oil at temperatures usually below 400 degrees Celsius under high pressures in the presence of water and, depending on the process, of a catalyst. In this context, it is important to understand the behavior of thermal degradation of the material under inert atmosphere, in order to investigate the possibility of breaking the initial polymer chains into smaller molecules, which, under pressure, can be converted into new products. The objectives of the present work are associated to the thermogravimetric study (TG) in the thermal degradation of the green coconut fiber in the presence of a cobalt ferrite (Fe2CoO4), used to generate a catalytic effect, accelerating the thermal degradation of the polymeric structures present, and which can be used later on an HTL route. The catalysts were produced at 1000 degrees Celsius at different calcination times (3h, 6h and 9h) and in the fiber mixtures, the oxide mass fraction was equal to 50 percent. The samples of interest for the research were characterized by different techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy, for the study of the morphology and elemental composition, X-ray diffraction, for the quantification of the phases present in the ferrite samples, and spectroscopy of Infrared, in order to identify the main chemical bonds in the fibers, both before and
during the heat treatment. Among all the TG assays performed, the experiments with the catalyst calcined for 9h homogenized with mortar and pestle showed the best to the thermal degradation of the fibers. The results further suggest that both the calcination time and the nature of the blending process have significant effects on the degradation kinetics.
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