Open AccessConversion of Wood into Hierarchically Porous Charcoal in the 200‐Gram‐Scale using Home‐Built Kiln **
Author(s) -
Long Leonel A.,
Arnal Pablo M.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry ‐ methods
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2628-9725
DOI - 10.1002/cmtd.202100037
Subject(s) - carbonization , charcoal , kiln , materials science , porosity , process engineering , pulp and paper industry , environmental science , yield (engineering) , waste management , composite material , engineering , metallurgy , scanning electron microscope
The wood‐to‐charcoal process (carbonization) is crucial in developing new materials at the lab for key technological processes nowadays. Unfortunately, laboratory carbonization methods are relatively costly and produce charcoal on a one‐gram scale. This work presents a simple‐to‐build and simple‐to‐operate homemade kiln that carbonizes Eucalyptus wood chips (yield of 30±1 %) and produces charcoal on the 200‐gram scale (two orders of magnitude higher). As‐made solid particles had the typical structure, composition, and chemical behavior of charcoal obtained from wood with standard carbonization procedures. Research of charcoal‐based materials is now probably more accessible.