Abstract Researchers led by rise in energy demands, exhausting fossil fuel resources and consequent environmental management problems, are in search for solution, in recent times. Fast pyrolysis process has commanded most intensive interest for solving the above research problems amongst other alternative fuel technologies. In this present work, DWSD feedstock characterization was carried out via proximate, ultimate, chemical compositions and FTIRS analyses and it was observed that DWSD has the following properties: the proximate analysis indicates high volatile (83.2 wt. %), low moisture (8.2 wt. %),) and low ash (wt. %), contents; the ultimate analysis indicates C,H,N,O content values as 50.50,5.82,0.03 and 43.05% respectively; the chemical composition found cellulose & hemicellulose content was 56.60 wt. %,lignin content, 41.00 wt. %; while the FTIRS shows alkanes, alkenes, aromatics, ketones, alcohol, ether, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, etc contents. Thus, feedstock characterization results show that DWSD sample has great potentials for use in production of pyrolysis oil.
Keywords proximate, ultimate, chemical compositions and FTIRS.