Showing papers by "Emma Jakab published in 2018"
TL;DR: In this article, the thermal decomposition of three essential oils has been studied at 300°C, using a 9% oxygen in nitrogen atmosphere, to mimic the thermal environment of flavours under low-temperature tobacco heating conditions.
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of inorganic content during the torrefaction of black locust wood, wheat straw, and rape straw was studied, where the raw samples were washed with hot water to remove the majority of the water soluble inorganic components.
14 citations
TL;DR: A modified pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) method was used to evaluate the thermo-oxidative degradation of 34 flavour compounds containing aromatic sub-units, in 9% oxygen / 91% nitrogen at 300 °C with 5 min isothermal holding as discussed by the authors.
9 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal decomposition of cotton and hemp fibers was studied after mild alkaline treatments with tetramethyl-, tetraethyl- and tetrabutylammonium hydroxides with the goal of modeling the chemical activation during carbonization of cellulosic fibers.
Abstract: The thermal decomposition of cotton and hemp fibers was studied after mild alkaline treatments with tetramethyl-, tetraethyl- and tetrabutylammonium hydroxides with the goal of modeling the chemical activation during carbonization of cellulosic fibers. The thermal decomposition was studied by thermogravimetry/mass spectrometry and pyrolysis–gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py–GC/MS). The treated samples decomposed in two temperature ranges during heating in the thermobalance. At lower temperature, tetraalkylammonium hydroxides (TAAH) ionically bonded to the cellulose molecules were decomposed; moreover, the alkaline agents initiated the partial decomposition of cellulose. Those fiber segments, which were not accessible for TAAH, decomposed at similar temperatures as the original cotton and hemp samples. It is known that quaternary ammonium hydroxides swell the cellulosic fibers; however, the results of this study proved that there was a chemical interaction between the alkaline swelling agents and cotton or hemp fibers at rather low temperatures (200–300 °C). The evolved products indicated that the alkaline chemicals reacted with the cellulose molecules and alkylated compounds were formed. This observation was confirmed by thermochemolysis experiments carried out by Py–GC/MS using tetramethylammonium hydroxide reagent. The thermochemolysis experiments under mild conditions resulted in the methylation of the glucoside units and levoglucosan, and no peeling reactions of the sugar units were observed as during strong alkaline conditions described in the literature.
9 citations