Experimental dataset investigating the effect of temperature in the presence or absence of catalysts on the pyrolysis of plantain and yam peels for bio-oil production

Efeovbokhan, Vincent Enon and Akinneye, Damilola and Ayeni, .A. O. and Omoleye, James and Bolade, Oladotun P. and Oni, Babalola (2020) Experimental dataset investigating the effect of temperature in the presence or absence of catalysts on the pyrolysis of plantain and yam peels for bio-oil production. Data in Brief, 31. ISSN 2352-3409

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Abstract

More than 1.3 billion tons, a third of the total food pro- duced, is wasted annually, and it has been predicted to in- crease in the coming years. Food waste significantly con- tributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting in the release of about 3.3 billion tonnes of CO 2 into the environ- ment yearly. Hence this large amount of wastes, with ad- verse environmental effects, needs to be appropriately man- aged. New technologies such as Anaerobic digestion, fermen- tation, and gasification are being used to produce renewable energy, which in turn reduces the increasing level of food wastes in the environment. Pyrolysis of biomass materials or food wastes produces high-value energy products or bio-oil that can possibly replace non-renewable fossil fuels when it is upgraded. In this study, pyrolysis (thermal treatment in the absence of oxygen) of plantain and yam peels to produce bio-oil, was in- vestigated. The pyrolysis conditions, wide temperature ranges at an interval of 100 °C (200–700 °C), absence of a cata- lyst (AOC), the use of zeolite –Y catalyst using two sepa- rate heterogeneous catalysis procedures were imposed and used to produced bio-oil. In the first procedure, the pyrolysis gases were allowed to rise through a zeolite-Y catalyst bed (HTC). And in the second procedure, the plantain or yam peel feedstock was first mixed uniformly with the zeolite-Y cata- lyst before pyrolysis (HMC). The GC–MS machine was used to analyze or characterize the obtained bio-oil while prox- imate analysis and XRF machine were used to characterize the plantain and yam peels feed. The residue, biochar, from the pyrolysis process, was also characterized using the XRF machine.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Pyrolysis Plantain peel Yam peel Zeolite-y Heterogeneous catalysis Bio-oil
Subjects:	T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Engineering Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2021 10:46
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2021 10:46
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/13873

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