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Biomass Conversion to Produce Hydrocarbon Liquid Fuel Via Hot-vapor Filtered Fast Pyrolysis and Catalytic Hydrotreating

DOI: 10.3791/54088-v
What you'll learn
  • ✓ Operate fast pyrolysis for biomass bio-oil production
  • ✓ Apply hot-vapor filtration to remove char and inorganics
  • ✓ Perform catalytic hydrotreating of bio-oil to hydrocarbons
  • ✓ Compare filtered and unfiltered bio-oil hydrotreating results
Protocol

Biopharma Insights Experimental methods for fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass to produce bio-oils and for the catalytic hydrotreating of bio-oils to produce fuel range hydrocarbons are presented. Hot-vapor filtration during fast pyrolysis to remove fine char particles and inorganic contaminants from bio-oil was also assessed.

Difficulty
advanced
Total time
~4-6 hours per biomass batch plus hydrotreating time

Steps

1
Run fast pyrolysis to produce pyrolysis oil

Convert lignocellulosic biomass into bio-oil using fast pyrolysis, with optional hot-vapor filtration.

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2
Hydrotreat pyrolysis oil to hydrocarbon fuels

Catalytically hydrotreat the produced bio-oil to yield fuel-range hydrocarbon liquids.

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3
Compare filtered and unfiltered pyrolysis oil results

Analyze yields and properties of hydrotreated products from switchgrass bio-oil with and without hot-vapor filtration.

▶ 09:22
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