Study on structural change of tobacco stems during carbonization

作者:Zhang Li Bo; Tu Jian Hua; Peng Jin Hui; Zhang Shi Min; Pu Jing Zhong; Ma Xiang Yuan
来源:Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products, 2006, 26(2): 44-48.

摘要

Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques have been applied to investigate thermal degradation characteristics of tobacco stems (TS) and the structure of its charcoal at different carbonization temperatures, respectively. The effect of carbonization temperature on the structure of the tobacco stems-based charcoal (TSC) and the carbonization mechanism of TS were discussed. Based on the results of TGA and XRD, a simple model of TS carbonization was derived. Experimental results show that weight loss during heating of dried TS in N2 atmosphere starts below 433 K and is almost terminated at 943 K, and the maximum decomposition rate in the temperature range 470-660 K could be determined by differential thermo-gravimetric (DTG) curve, and almost 72.85% of the total weight loss occurs in 298-1273 K. The XRD patterns of TSCs showed three broad peaks (002), (100) and (110), which are typical of turbostratic layering and non-graphitic carbon. With the increasing of carbonization temperature, the interlayer spacing of aromatic layers (d002) is decreasing, and the crystallite sizes Lc and L1 are changing in the ranges of 0.66-1.24 nm and 2.64-4.26 nm, respectively, which implied that there are about 2-4 graphene layers along c-axis and 10-18 aromatic rings along a-axis in crystallite of TSCs.

  • 出版日期2006

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