Liquid product properties of pyrolyzed bamboo Saw-dusts

Abstract

Received: 8 August 2018 Accepted: 4 November 2018 Published: 1 October 2018 A pyrolyzer was fabricated for the collection of liquid products from the pyrolysis of untreated bamboo saw dusts fromUPV-Bamboo Enterprise Development Project. Collection and analysis of the liquid productswere performed for two temperature ranges from 490-500C and 550-560C. Based on the generated method from the fabricated pyrolyzer, the yield ranges from 8% to 16%.The analyses included the physicochemical properties of the liquid products such as the pH, viscosity, density, and heating value. For temperature ranges of 490-500C and 550-560C, mean values of pH were 4.47 and 4.30; density values were 1087.37 kg/m and 1066.76 kg/m; viscosity values were 1.32 mm/s and 1.62 mm/s; and heating values were 1.99 MJ/kg and 2.51 MJ/kg respectively. The results showed that there was no signi􀅭icant difference in the pH, viscosity, calori􀅭ic value, and density of the untreated bamboo saw dust with different operating temperatures of the pyrolyzer equipment using a One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) since the p-value of each test were greater than the speci􀅭iedα = 0.05 level of signi􀅭icance.