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Simulating the Rapid Devolatilization of Mineral-Free Lignins
by Stephen Niksa
Polymers 2023, 15(20), 4043; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15204043 - 10 Oct 2023
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Abstract
Lig-FC is a network depolymerization mechanism for the rapid primary devolatilization of mineral-free lignins that has already been validated with test data on 16 lignin samples. This paper expands the validation with an additional 13 lignins, including cases that applied different lignin [...] Read more.
Lig-FC is a network depolymerization mechanism for the rapid primary devolatilization of mineral-free lignins that has already been validated with test data on 16 lignin samples. This paper expands the validation with an additional 13 lignins, including cases that applied different lignin preparations to the same feedstock. The validations reported here cover 27 mineral-free lignins for temperatures to 1150 °C, heating rates from 30 to 8000 °C/s, contact times after heatup to 90 s, and pressures from vacuum to 0.13 MPa. Lig-FC accurately depicts the impacts of lignin quality, heating rate, temperature, contact time, and pressure on the major products and oils’ molecular weight distributions (MWDs). All raw lignins contain abundant oil precursors that are released as oils via flash distillation as soon as a flow of noncondensables carries them into the free stream. Consequently, lignin MWD is an essential aspect of lignin constitution because it determines the inventory of inherent volatile chains subject to unhindered flash distillation. Lighter lignin MWDs have larger inherent inventories and therefore produce more oils than heavier MWDs at the onset of devolatilization. Oil yields diminish and char yields increase for progressively heavier MWDs and heavier mean monomer weights and for lignins with relatively less H and more O compared to C. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lignin-Based Polymeric Materials: Properties and Applications)
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