How to Use pyrolysis in a Sentence

pyrolysis

noun
  • The question is: can the pyrolysis process be controlled well enough to generate all of these products?
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Instead, the wood debris is loaded into large kilns, where the heat burns at three times the temperature of fire and the oxygen is sucked from the chamber in a process called pyrolysis.
    Jesse Bedayn, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The company planned to use a process known as pyrolysis to break down used gloves, tubing and syringes to generate power.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
  • And the largest waste plastic pyrolysis plant in the world from Brightmark is nearing completion in Ashley, Indiana, with more larger plants on the way.
    Brentan Alexander, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • To this end, pyrolysis is performed in the presence catalysts.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Some plastics are simply burned, or decompose with heat in a process known as pyrolysis to produce fuel.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2017
  • Initially press down with the thunderhead just hard enough for pyrolysis to begin.
    Bradley Duncan, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2023
  • One such method is pyrolysis, a procedure in which plastics are heated to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.
    Sarah Deweerdt, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In 2022, the state Senate passed legislation that would have cleared the way for pyrolysis facilities for plastics, which would be similar to what MedRecycler is now pursuing in the courts.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The solvents will break down polymers into shorter chains, much like pyrolysis and gasification do, to then be reformed into new plastic.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2021
  • Vales said Wastefront uses a thermochemical process known as pyrolysis, which heats the waste tires at 450 degrees and produces no carbon emissions.
    Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The company had proposed doing what’s called pyrolysis on Division Road in West Warwick.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Plastic pyrolysis in the U.S. is still developing in contrast to other countries.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • This leads to pyrolysis, or thermal decomposition, which causes the collagen to break down into gasses.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Polis has allowed the O&G/plastics industry to embark on the use of pyrolysis and incineration to deal with Colorado’s plastic waste problem.
    Tj Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 24 May 2024
  • And replace as much natural gas as possible with low-carbon alternatives such as biogas, hydrogen and synthesized methane or use a process called pyrolysis at the end of the natural gas pipes to get the carbon out.
    Michael E. Webber, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Critics argue plastic pyrolysis produces a very small amount of useful products and emits harmful pollutants.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • This can be pressed into particleboard such as the kind used in furniture or potentially made into biofuels for ships and planes—the latter conversion requires pyrolysis, a process in which the bagasse is heated in the absence of oxygen.
    Ula Chrobak, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But in theory, the smaller molecules that pyrolysis yields could be reassembled back into plastics.
    Sarah Deweerdt, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Because Kore uses pyrolysis to do its work, a Kore facility produces no smoke or other off-gases.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Hydrogen pyrolysis starts with methane, the main component in natural gas.
    Ed Ballard, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • To create the new, charcoal-like additive, the team employed a low-energy process known as pyrolysis, in which organic waste is heated to 350 degrees Celsius without oxygen to avoid generating carbon dioxide.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
  • For those of you who read my article about the terrestrial carbon cycle, Kore’s pyrolysis essentially uses high heat to cut a few million years out of the process that nature uses to turn organic waste into natural gas.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • In one of his more demanding experiments, Stern combined forces with Johannes Lehmann, a biogeochemist at Cornell and an expert in pyrolysis—a thermochemical process in which materials are treated with high heat in the absence of oxygen.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Plastic-to-fuel conversion involves pyrolysis or gasification, both of which use heat and chemical processes to break down plastic waste into products that are turned into fuels.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • The company making the request is a startup with a system that uses pyrolysis, or combustion at extremely high-temperatures, to convert municipal waste and waste tires into synthetic gas, oil, carbon black, steel residue and char, a soil enhancer.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Not everybody is a fan, however, because during the process of breaking down the plastics, called pyrolysis, a number of toxic chemicals are released including benzene, mercury, and arsenic, Politico continues.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 2 May 2023
  • Minzae Lee and team subjected the filters to a high-temperature process called pyrolysis, transforming the organic materials inside them into a porous carbon substance.
    Leah Shaffer, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2015
  • The pyrolysis oil will then be used to manufacture sustainable circular chemicals which are typically used in a wide variety of products found in everyday life like cleaning products, textiles, food packaging and others.
    Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Like the conventional hydrogen-production process, hydrogen pyrolysis starts with methane, the main component in natural gas.
    Ed Ballard, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022

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