抄録
This study deals with understanding the pyrolysis decomposition mechanism of newspaper and its conversion into environmentally friendly gaseous fuel. Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analyses (TG/DTA) techniques are used to investigate thermal degradation characteristics and the kinetic parameters (order of reaction, activation energy and pre-exponential factor) at the heating rate of 5, 10 and 20K/min. The next attempt is taken to gasify the newspaper at different temperatures in an oxygen free environment and the compositions of gaseous products have been determined in a gas-chromatography. It is found from chromatographic analysis that the temperatures have significant effect on the concentration of gases generated from the pyrolysis of newspaper.
