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
• 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
• The team then processed the samples using pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry which basically uses heat to break up complex chemical compounds into their most basic parts, which can then be identified and quantified.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024