Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2015
Abstract
Microwave heating is considered to be a potential, efficient and fast method for thermal treatment of biomass. Therefore, elemental understanding of dielectric properties of biomass is necessary before irradiating it with microwave radiations. Dielectric properties along with penetration depth, relaxation time and static permittivity of oil palm shell COPS) and OPS char were investigated in the frequency ranging between 0.5 and 20 GHz at room temperature. At low frequencies, dielectric constant of UPS was higher than that of UPS char while at higher frequencies, vice versa is observed. Penetration depth for UPS char was higher than that of UPS at low frequencies. Significant variation in relaxation time was observed for OPS in different frequency range, suggesting that the OPS do not obey the Debye equation for dielectrics. Relaxation time and static permittivity for UPS was higher as compared to OPS char. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords
dielectric properties, microwave heating, oil palm shell (ops), ops char, penetration depth, wheat-straw, rice straw, bio-char, enzymatic-hydrolysis, assisted pyrolysis, activated carbons, biomass, adsorption, removal, waste
Divisions
fac_eng
Funders
This research is financially supported by University of Malaya, Ministry of Higher Education High Impact Research (UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/20) and University Malaya Research Grant (UMRG: RG121/11AET).
Publication Title
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
Volume
112
Publisher
Elsevier
Additional Information
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