Comparison of the Products Distribution of the Pyrolysis of Paper with Its Oxidative Cracking

Abstract

Paper is a cleaner biomass and has been converted into useful products by its pyrolytic and oxidative cracking. Its oxidative cracking was an attempt for the product selective cracking. It is a hydrothermal cracking at high temperature that stabilizes the violent radical reaction with promising product selective results. The GC/MS analysis of both the pyrolytic and oxidative cracking reveals that the both pyrolysates contain furans, furanones, carbonyl compounds, anhydro-sugars and carboxylic acids.