Towards a mechanistic understanding of particle shrinkage during biomass pyrolysis via synchrotron X-ray microtomography and in-situ radiography

Acknowledgements This research was supported by Queen Mary University of London. We acknowledge Diamond Light Source for time on beamline I13 under Proposal MG21587. This research utilised Queen Mary’s Apocrita HPC facility, supported by QMUL Research-IT. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.438045. The authors would like to acknowl- edge Dr. Kaz Wanelik and Simon Logan for technical support at Diamond Light Source, as well as Jun Ma for developing the reactor control program at QMUL. M.R.B. would like to acknowledge Paul-Enguerrand Fady for proofreading the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD