Role of carbo-catalyst on upgrading the pyrolysis vapors of spent Eucalyptus nicholii biomass: Towards sustainable phenolics production
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Abstract
The present study investigates the impact of biosolids-derived activated biochar on the spent Eucalyptus nicholii (EUC) biomass pyrolysis and its bio-oil composition. Affordable catalysts made from biosolids biochar can be efficiently used instead of the expensive catalysts currently used in catalytic pyrolysis. This shift can contribute to making the process more interconnected and sustainable. Biosoilds-derived activated biochar (carbo-catalysts) significantly improved the selectivity of phenolics and hydrocarbons in bio-oil, which is attributed to their enriched surface functionalities and high surface area. A high content of phenolics (69.7 area%) and hydrocarbons (13.7 area%) was observed in the bio-oil product with H 3 PO 4 -activated biosolid carbo-catalyst (PAC) compared to KOH-activated (KAC) and non-activated carbo-catalyst (BC) at optimized pyrolysis temperature, i.e., 400 °C. The incorporation of catalysts in ex-situ mode was observed to have no significant impact on biochar yield; however, bio-oil yield was greatly influenced by the incorporation of carbo-catalysts. This demonstrated that carbo-catalysts facilitate the cracking and deoxygenation, decarboxylation reactions owing to C=O, C-O -C, -P=O, C-PO 3 , C-O-PO 3 , and P-O enriched surface functionalities after activation in PAC revealed by FTIR and XPS. Graphical Abstract
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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