- Author
- Philpot, C. W.
- Title
- Pyrolysis Products and Thermal Characteristics of Cottonwood and Its Components.
- Coporate
- Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, UT
- Report
- Research Paper INT-107, September 1971, 35 p.
- Keywords
- forestry | pyrolysis products | cellulosic materials | thermal analysis | differential thermal analysis | thermogravimetric analysis
- Identifiers
- isolation of the chemical components of western cottonwood; pyrolysis of xylan; pyrolysis of cottonwood
- Abstract
- This study was undertaken to determine the thermal properties of, and the pyrolysis products from, western cottonwood and two of its major components: cellulose and xylan. The modifications due to treatment of the wood and its components with an acid and alkali were also documented. Differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), as well as direct pyrolysis into a temperature-programmed gas-liquid chromatograph, were used in this investigation.