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Revealing the chemistry of biomass pyrolysis by means of tunable synchrotron photoionisation-mass spectrometry

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''Imaging'' biomass conversion: pyrolysis is the first reaction involved in all thermal processes for biofuels and green chemicals production. Synchrotron light ionisation and mass spectrometry is used for the first time to investigate biomass pyrolysis. The soft and tunable ionisation source coupled with ab initio calculations reveals chemical mechanisms and new major intermediate species. This methodology could be extended to the thermal and catalytic conversion of all other materials. Primary volatile products are analysed online as a function of photon energy, biomass composition (cellulose, xylan, lignin), reactor temperature and time of conversion. Hydroxyacetaldehyde was detected at very minor yields for cellulose pyrolysis confirming that it is a secondary product. The effect of cellulose structure and ash content on primary tar formation was also studied. The mechanism of levoglucosan dissociative photoionisation is depicted. A new major intermediate product which could be a precursor of furanone-based species from cellulose is evidenced thanks to the soft ionisation and MSMS structural analysis of ions. Different lignin markers and evolutions upon time of conversion are shown for miscanthus and oak pyrolysis.
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hal-00799210 , version 1 (11-03-2013)

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Anthony Dufour, Junjie Weng, Liangyuan Jia, Xiaofeng Tang, Baptiste Sirjean, et al.. Revealing the chemistry of biomass pyrolysis by means of tunable synchrotron photoionisation-mass spectrometry. Royal Society of Chemistry Advances, 2013, 3, pp.4786-4792. ⟨10.1039/c3ra40486b⟩. ⟨hal-00799210⟩
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