Product distributions from the pyrolysis of a common sample of pine-wood have been determined for two reactors with different configurations. The ablative pyrolysis reactor operates on the principle of “scraping” a continuous stream of biomass particles onto a heated surface under conditions of high relative motion and high applied pressure. In the wire-mesh reactor configuration, fine dispersion of a small quantity [4–6 mg] of sample and the rapid removal of volatiles from the reaction zone ensures that volatiles released during pyrolysis are captured under conditions minimising extra particle secondary reactions.
Comparison of liquid yields determined for the two reactors has been undertaken in order to assess the effect of secondary reactions on yields during ablative pyrolysis. Structural characterisations and comparison of liquids produced in the two reactors have been carried out by size exclusion chromatography, UV-fluorescence spectroscopy and FTIR spectroscopy. Slight differences in structures were apparent either due to cracking of lignin-derived macromolecules on the heated reactor surface or low molecular weight components formed during slow pyrolysis reactions of a small proportion of the feed material. Comparison of the ablative liquids with those from other ablative pyrolysis reactors show similar trends in molecular mass distributions and structures suggesting that the ablative pyrolysis process inherently cracks some liquids during volatilisation. Dry organic liquid yields from the ablative pyrolysis reactor were between 2.5 and 5.3% lower than the wire-mesh reactor between 55° and 600°C. This is believed to be a result of non-optimised reactor operation of the ablative pyrolysis reactor. 相似文献
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have exhibited promising performance as transducers and amplifiers of low potentials due to their exceptional transconductance, enabled by the volumetric charging of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) employed as the channel material. OECT performance in aqueous electrolytes as well as the OMIECs’ redox activity has spurred a myriad of studies employing OECTs as chemical transducers. However, the OECT's large (potentiometrically derived) transconductance is not fully leveraged in common approaches that directly conduct chemical reactions amperometrically within the OECT electrolyte with direct charge transfer between the analyte and the OMIEC, which results in sub-unity transduction of gate to drain current. Hence, amperometric OECTs do not truly display current gains in the traditional sense, falling short of the expected transistor performance. This study demonstrates an alternative device architecture that separates chemical transduction and amplification processes on two different electrochemical cells. This approach fully utilizes the OECT's large transconductance to achieve current gains of 103 and current modulations of four orders of magnitude. This transduction mechanism represents a general approach enabling high-gain chemical OECT transducers. 相似文献
Sensitivity and multi-directional motivation are major two factors for developing optimized humidity-response materials, which are promising for sensing, energy production, etc. Organic functional groups are commonly used as the water sensitive units through hydrogen bond interactions with water molecules in actuators. The multi-coordination ability of inorganic ions implies that the inorganic ionic compounds are potentially superior water sensitive units. However, the particle forms of inorganic ionic compounds produced by classical nucleation limit the number of exposed ions to interact with water. Recent progress on the inorganic ionic oligomers has broken through the limitation of classical nucleation, and realized the molecular-scaled incorporation of inorganic ionic compounds into an organic matrix. Here, the incorporation of hydrophilic calcium carbonate ionic oligomers into hydrophobic poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) is demonstrated. The ultra-small calcium carbonate oligomers within a PVDF film endow it with an ultra-sensitive, reversible, and bidirectional response. The motivation ability is superior to other bidirectional humidity-actuators at present, which realizes self-motivation on an ice surface, converting the chemical potential energy of the humidity gradient from ice to kinetic energy. 相似文献
Electrical conductivity measurements were made on the pyrochlore compounds (Gd1–xCax)2Sn2O7 (x =0, 0.0036, 0.0057, 0.03) as a function of temperature, oxygen partial pressure and Ca doping concentration. An effective Frenkel constant and oxygen vacancy mobility were derived. Intrinsic anion disorder was found to be lower than the expected value based on the relative radii of the cations in the A and B sites (A2B2O7). Low oxygen vacancy mobilities as well as low anion disorder resulted in considerably lower ionic conductivities in GdsSn2O7 relative to the previously studied Gd2(Ti1–xZrx)2O7 system. The temperature and composition dependence of the p-type electronic conductivity were evaluated and the oxidation enthalpy was derived. 相似文献