pyrolysis
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Pyrolysis is the process of heating material, like wood, to very high temperatures without oxygen, which breaks it down into different substances. It's an important step that happens before combustion (burning) and is used in various industrial applications to process materials.
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- Applications
- Terminology
- Types
- History
- Wood distillation components
- General processes and mechanisms
- Safety challenges
- Occurrence and uses
- Clandestine chemistry
- Cooking
- Coke, carbon, charcoals, and chars
- Liquid and gaseous biofuels
- Methane pyrolysis for hydrogen
- Ethylene
- Semiconductors
- Waste management
- One-stepwise pyrolysis and two-stepwise pyrolysis for tobacco waste
- Thermal cleaning
- Fine chemical synthesis
- Other uses and occurrences
- PAHs generation
- Study tools
- Thermogravimetric analysis
- Macro-TGA
- Pyrolysis–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
- Machine learning
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Burning pieces of wood, showing various stages of pyrolysis, followed by oxidative combustion
Pyrolysis (; ) is a process involving the separation of covalent bonds in organic matter by thermal decomposition within an inert environment without oxygen.