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Thermogravimetry/mass spectrometry analysis of energy crops

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The aim of this work was to study the thermal decomposition of different plant species obtained from energy plantations. Thermogravimetry/ mass spectrometry (TG/MS) experiments have been performed with two herbaceous crops (Miscanthus sinensis, pelletized energy grass) and two wood samples (willow, water locust) in inert and oxidative atmospheres. Owing to the large number of data obtained in the experiments, a chemometric tool, principal component analysis (PCA) has been used to help the interpretation of the results. It has been found that the thermal decomposition of the studied wood species is similar, whereas that of the studied herbaceous samples exhibits significant differences. PCA has been found to be useful for finding correlations between the various experimental data.

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  1. Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1525, P.O. Box 17

    Erika Mészáros, Emma Jakab & G. Várhegyi

  2. Hungarian Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Gödöllő, Hungary

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Mészáros, E., Jakab, E., Várhegyi, G. et al. Thermogravimetry/mass spectrometry analysis of energy crops. J Therm Anal Calorim 88, 477–482 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-006-8102-4

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