Sawdust

About: Sawdust is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5526 publications have been published within this topic receiving 86499 citations. The topic is also known as: wood dust & hard wood dust.

Potential Utilization of Sawdust in Energy, Manufacturing and Agricultural Industry; Waste to Wealth

Abstract: Sawdust which is basically considered as a timber-industrial waste that pollutes the environment can become a valuable commodity which is considered in three ways: Manufacturing, Energy and Agricultural utilization. The sawdust is burnt in an updraft gasifier under a limited supply of air to obtain producer gas which is carbon II oxide and hydrogen as main components. The sawdust and other biomass materials are mixed in certain proportions, then bound together and palletized to a small blocks called briquettes. The material was also considered to be composted by mixing it with animal digestion or wood ashes and calcium carbonate to form fertilizers. The sawdust and wood shavings can be used for particle board as well as oil production.

Enhanced Hydrogen Production from Sawdust Decomposition Using Hybrid-Functional Ni-CaO-Ca2SiO4 Materials

Abstract: A hybrid-functional material consisting of Ni as catalyst, CaO as CO2 sorbent, and Ca2SiO4 as polymorphic “active” spacer was synthesized by freeze-drying a mixed solution containing Ni, Ca and Si precursors, respectively, to be deployed during sawdust decomposition that generated gases mainly containing H2, CO, CO2 and CH4. The catalytic activity showed a positive correlation to the Ni loading, but at the expense of lower porosity and surface area with Ni loading beyond 20 wt %, indicating an optimal Ni loading of 20 wt % for Ni-CaO-Ca2SiO4 hybrid-functional materials, which enables ∼626 mL H2 (room temperature, 1 atm) produced from each gram of sawdust, with H2 purity in the product gas up to 68 vol %. This performance was superior over a conventional supported catalyst Ni–Ca2SiO4 that produced 443 mL H2 g-sawdust–1 under the same operating condition with a purity of ∼61 vol %. Although the Ni-CaO bifunctional material in its fresh form generated a bit more H2 (∼689 mL H2 g-sawdust–1), its cyclic perfor...

Biodegradation of radiolabelled synthetic lignin (14C-DHP) and mechanical pulp in a compost environment.

Abstract: Mineralization of radioactive synthetic lignin (14C-DHP) was studied in a compost environment at 35, 50 and 58°C. Compost samples were successively extracted with water, dioxane and alkali, and the molecular weight distribution of some extracts was determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC). Biodegradation of lignin-containing spruce groundwood (SGW) and pine sawdust was concurrently determined in controlled composting tests by measuring evolved CO2. The temperatures were the same as in the 14C-DHP mineralization experiment and bleached kraft paper, with a lignin content of 0.2%, was used as a reference. The mineralization of 14C-DHP was relatively high (23–24%) at 35°C and 50°C, although the mixed population of compost obviously lacks the most effective lignin degraders. At 58°C the mineralization of 14C-DHP, as well as the biodegradation of SGW and sawdust, was very low, indicating that the lignin-degrading organisms of compost were inactivated at this temperature. SGW was poorly biodegradable (<40%) in controlled composting tests compared with kraft paper (77–86%) at all temperatures, which means that lignin inhibits the degradation of carbohydrates. During the incubation, water-soluble degradation products, mainly monomers and dimers, and the original 14C-DHP were either mineralized or bound to humic substances. A substantial fraction of 14C-DHP was incorporated into humin or other insolubles.