eprintid: 15302 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/01/53/02 datestamp: 2023-11-10 03:29:55 lastmod: 2023-11-10 03:29:55 status_changed: 2023-11-10 01:59:09 type: book metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Wen, A.L.K. creators_name: Chew, J.J. creators_name: Yiin, C.L. creators_name: Lock, S.S.M. title: Thermal degradation behavior and kinetic modeling of green solvents-delignified biomass: a sustainable biomass-to-energy approach ispublished: pub note: cited By 0 abstract: The vast amount of empty fruit bunches (EFBs), which are generated in line with the huge production of crude palm oil in Malaysia, poses significant threats to the environment. In this sense, low-transition-temperature-mixtures (LTTMs) have been recognized as promising green solvents for the pretreatment of biomass as they are of low cost, easy to prepare, and environmental friendly with high delignification selectivity, which also improve the thermal degradation and hydrolysis performance of biomass. The delignification efficiency of LTTMs synthesized from malic acid-sucrose-water was investigated under various pretreatment temperatures, and the optimum temperature was identified to be 90°C. The delignified EFBs were applied in thermogravimetric analysis in order to study the effect of heating rates on their pyrolytic behaviors. Based on the differential thermogravimetric curves, the peaks of the maximum degradation temperature were moved to higher values with increasing heating rates. Iso-conversional Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS) model was applied in the kinetic modeling of the pyrolysis of delignified EFBs. The estimated activation energy for the untreated EFBs varied within the range of 42.27-254.16kJmol�1 while for the delignified EFBs were within the range of 57.73-262.12kJmol�1. This showed that the EFBs attained higher molecular stability after pretreatment using the LTTMs. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. date: 2021 publisher: Elsevier official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85138414167&doi=10.1016%2fB978-0-12-824388-6.00012-9&partnerID=40&md5=6c5ceb17245c65d227164a2f7e5f3d61 id_number: 10.1016/B978-0-12-824388-6.00012-9 full_text_status: none publication: Value-Chain of Biofuels: Fundamentals, Technology, and Standardization pagerange: 89-103 refereed: TRUE isbn: 9780128243886; 9780323858991 citation: Wen, A.L.K. and Chew, J.J. and Yiin, C.L. and Lock, S.S.M. (2021) Thermal degradation behavior and kinetic modeling of green solvents-delignified biomass: a sustainable biomass-to-energy approach. Elsevier, pp. 89-103. ISBN 9780128243886; 9780323858991