"Recent Advances in Pyrolysis" ed. by Hassan Al- Haj Ibrahim

This volume is dedicated to pyrolysis used heavily in the chemical industry to produce many forms of carbon and other chemicals from petroleum, coal, wood, oil shale, biomass or organic waste materials, and it is the basis of several methods for producing fuel from biomass. Pyrolysis also is the process of conversion of buried organic matter into fossil fuels.

Pyrolysis is an irreversible thermochemical treatment process of materials at elevated temperatures in an inert atmosphere. It is basically a carbonisation process where an organic material is decomposed to produce a solid residue with high (or higher) carbon content and some volatile products. The decomposition reactions are accompanied in general with polymerisation and isomerisation reactions. The end products of pyrolysis can be controlled by optimizing pyrolysis parameters such as temperature and residence time.

Contents
1.Introductory Chapter: Pyrolysis
2.A Study on Pyrolysis of Lignin over Mesoporous Materials
3.Influence of Process Parameters on Synthesis of Biochar by Pyrolysis of Biomass: An Alternative Source of Energy
4.Modeling and Optimization of Product Profiles in Biomass Pyrolysis
5.Waste Plastics Valorization by Fast Pyrolysis and in Line Catalytic Steam Reforming for Hydrogen Production
6.Synthesis and Characterization of Forsterite (Mg2SiO4) Nanomaterials of Dunite from Sumatera