Gaojin Lv

Applications of Chromatography Hyphenated Techniques in the Field of Lignin Pyrolysis

Due to the urgency of the current world energy supply-and-demand situation, the need for clean sources of energy is receiving an increasing attention. In the framework of a future sustainable development, biomass is one of the most often considered sources of renewable energy (Bridgewater et al., 1999). There are many ways of converting biomass into useful products and energy, such as direct combustion processes, thermochemical processes, biochemical processes, and agrochemical processes etc. Of these, pyrolysis forms the focus of this study (Bridgewater, 2004; Mohan et al., 2006). The pyrolysis of lignocellulose is very complex, primarily due to the inherent complexity of the substrate, which changes continuously both chemically and structurally throughout the decomposition process (Hosoya et al., 2007; Lv et al., 2010a).