Pyrolysis products, possibly derived material

While it is possible to recover the bicyclic naphthalene from pyrolysis products of coal and petroleum-derived raw materials, the tricyclic anthracene can be isolated only from high-temperature coal tar, since anthracene is present only in small amounts in other pyrolysis products and in the residues of catalytic hydrocarbon conversion. 

A very rigorous procedure (Fairburn, 1988), developed over the years, is implemented for each run. This methodology and the above described system have been proven very reliable and successful in providing the best possible qualitative and quantitative information on the product distribution derived from pyrolysis of various materials under carefully controlled temperatures and reaction times. Wires have been utilized in the experimental work having Curie Point temperatures from 300 to 1000°C and experiments performed with various feedstocks with carefully controlled reaction times between 50 and 2000 milliseconds. 

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