Omar, Sainab, Alsamaq, Suzanne, Yang, Yang and Wang, Jiawei (2019). Production of renewable fuels by blending bio-oil with alcohols and upgrading under supercritical conditions. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 13 (4), pp. 702-717.
Abstract
The work studied a non-catalytic upgrading of fast pyrolysis bio-oil by blending under supercritical conditions using methanol, ethanol and isopropanol as solvent and hydrogen donor. Characterisation of the bio-oil and the upgraded bio-oils was carried out including moisture content, elemental content, pH, heating value, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS), Fourier transform infrared radiation, 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis to evaluate the effects of blending and supercritical reactions. The GCMS analysis indicated that the supercritical methanol reaction removed the acids in the bio-oil consequently the pH increased from 2.39 in the crude bio-oil to 4.04 after the supercritical methanol reaction. The ester contents increased by 87.49% after the supercritical methanol reaction indicating ester formation could be the major deacidification mechanism for reducing the acidity of the bio-oil and improving its pH value. Simply blending crude bio-oil with isopropanol was effective in increasing the C and H content, reducing the O content and increasing the heating value to 27.55 from 17.51 MJ·kg −1 in the crude bio-oil. After the supercritical isopropanol reaction, the heating value of the liquid product slightly further increased to 28.85 MJ·kg −1.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-019-1861-9 |
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| Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering > Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry College of Engineering & Physical Sciences College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Materials Research (AIMR) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bio-oil,blending,characterisation,supercritical,upgrading,General Chemical Engineering |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 08:21 |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2019 15:33 |
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| Published Date: | 2019-12-01 |
| Published Online Date: | 2019-10-23 |
| Accepted Date: | 2019-08-30 |
| Authors: |
Omar, Sainab
Alsamaq, Suzanne Yang, Yang ( 
0000-0003-2075-3803)
Wang, Jiawei (
0000-0001-5690-9107)
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