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What is pyrolysis?.

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Biogreen Newsletter Pyrolysis is a thermochemical treatment, which can be applied to any organic (carbon-based) product. In this treatment,
material is exposed to high temperature, and in the absence of oxygen goes through chemical and physical separation
into di erent molecules.

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This allows to receive products with a di erent, often more superior character that original residue. Thanks to this
Biomass pyrolysis feature, pyrolysis becomes increasingly important process for today industry – as it allows to bring far greater value to
common materials and waste.
Sludge pyrolysis

Plastics In contrary to combustion and gasi cations processes, which involve entire or partial oxidation of material, pyrolysis
bases on heating in the absence of air. This makes it mostly endothermic process that ensure high energy content in
RDF / SRF
the products received.
Tires and rubber
Pyrolysis products always produce solid (charcoal, biochar), liquid and non-condensable gases (H2, CH4, CnHm, CO, CO2
and N). As the liquid phase is extracted from pyrolysis gas only during it’s cooling down, in some applications, these two

PRODUCTS streams can be used together when providing hot syngas directly to the burner or oxidation chamber (see « Directions
of hot syngas utilisation »).
Syngas
During the pyrolysis, a particle of material is heated up from the ambient to de ned temperature (setup temperature of
Biochar production
Biogreen® equipment). The material remains inside the pyrolysis unit and is transported by screw conveyor at de ned

Pyrolysis oil speed, until the completion of the process. Chosen temperature of pyrolysis de nes the composition and yields of
products (pyrolysis oil, syngas and char).
Charcoal and bio-coal

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What is pyrolysis?

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Processes

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Questions and answers

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The pyrolyzer Spirajoule®

The cooling system UPK®

Kenki dryer
What in uences pyrolysis process results?
Beltomatic® Belt Dryer
treated material composition – each of the major constituents of biomass and waste feature di erent
temperatures of thermal decomposition, which means they contribute to the results of process in di erent
way. Due to high diversity of material compositions it is always recommended to perform a pilot tests to
forecast the pyrolysis process performance in most accurate way.

temperature of process – has a major in uence to the treatment results. Higher temperatures of pyrolysis
provide greater quantity of non-condensable gases (syngas, synthetic gas), while lower temperatures favour

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the production of high quality solid product (charcoal, bio-coal, torre ed fuels). Temperature is a factor fully
controllable in Biogreen® process thanks to electrically heated screw conveyor that allows precise setup of
treatment conditions.

residence time of material in the pyrolysis chamber – in uences the degree of thermal conversion of
received solid product as well as the residence time of the vapour, which in uences the composition of
vapours (condensable / non-condensable phase). Residence time can be precisely controlled in Biogreen®
process by changing the rotation speed of screw conveyor (Spirajoule®) transporting material along the
reactor.

particle size and physical structure – in uences the speed in which material is subjected to pyrolysis. In
general, lower particle size materials are quicker a ected by the thermal decomposition, which can result in
greater quantities of pyrolysis oil than in case of larger particle size.

Are you looking how to apply the pyrolysis process in practice? Learn more about the
possibilities by checking our summary of Top 20 Pyrolysis Applications

Biogreen® top 20 pyrolysis applications

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