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    Composition-Preserving Extraction and Characterization of Biomass Extrinsic and Intrinsic Inorganic Compounds
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    • Kyungjun Lee
      Kyungjun Lee
      Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Sougata Roy
      Sougata Roy
      Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Ercan Cakmak
      Ercan Cakmak
      Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Jeffrey A. Lacey
      Jeffrey A. Lacey
      Biological and Chemical Processing Department, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415, United States
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    • Thomas R. Watkins
      Thomas R. Watkins
      Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Harry M. Meyer
      Harry M. Meyer
      Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Vicki S. Thompson
      Vicki S. Thompson
      Biological and Chemical Processing Department, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415, United States
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    • James R. Keiser
      James R. Keiser
      Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Jun Qu*
      Jun Qu
      Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    The inorganic content of biomass impairs size reduction tool life and the conversion process. Conventional ash extraction relies on furnace combustion that inevitably alters the inorganic compounds due to oxidation and decomposition. This study developed composition-preserving methods for extracting and analyzing extrinsic and intrinsic inorganic compounds. Comprehensive characterization was carried out on selected biomass feedstocks, including corn stover, pine residue, and pine anatomical fractions, to reveal their inorganic species and morphology. The extrinsic inorganic compounds were found to be dominated by quartz, along with other minor minerals, such as albite, microcline, and gehlenite, and have particle sizes ranging from tens to hundreds of micrometers. Among the pine anatomical fractions, the needles contain the highest intrinsic silicon content while the bark trapped the most extrinsic minerals. By correlation of the total ash and extrinsic inorganic contents to the wear behavior, both the extrinsic and intrinsic inorganic compounds were concluded to have made significant contributions to the wear process. The results here validated a new approach to characterize inorganic compounds in biomass and provided fundamental insights for their potential impact on preprocessing tool wear.

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    • Harvesting locations of four biomass samples, schematic of blasting wear test, microstructures of corn stover and pine residue’ tissues, size and shape distributions of extrinsic minerals of pine anatomical fractions, relation between weight percentage and particle size, comparison of chemical compositions of low-ash and high-ash pine residue, and EDS spectra and elemental maps of the water-soluble compounds from corn stover and pine residue (PDF)

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