Liquid fuel production by aqueous phase catalytic transformation of biomass for aviation

Tiejun Wang, Songbai Qiu, Yujing Weng, Lungang Chen, Qiying Liu, Jinxing Long, Jin Tan, Qing Zhang, Qi Zhang and Longlong Ma

Applied Energy, 2015, vol. 160, issue C, 329-335

Abstract: The commercial jet fuels usually contain about 40% aromatics and naphthene. However, conventional technologies on bio-jet fuels production by hydrodeoxygenation of plant oil and biomass gasification/Fischer–Tropsch synthesis can’t produce renewable aromatics. In this paper, the liquid fuels with high aromatics content were produced by aqueous phase catalytic conversion of biomass sugar/polyol over Ni@HZSM-5/MCM-41 catalysts. Liquid fuel yield of 32wt% with aromatics content of 84.3% was obtained under the conditions of 300°C, WHSV of 1.25h−1, GHSV of 2500h−1 and 4.0MPa of hydrogen pressure with mixed polyol (60% sorbitol+40% xylitol) as feedstocks. The produced bio-aromatics are substituted benzenes, naphthalenes, and aromatic olefins, which is a wonderful crude oil to be used as jet fuels after it was hydrogenated to improve quality (deep deoxygenation/chemical bond saturation).

Keywords: Liquid fuels; Aqueous phase; Catalytic transformation; Biomass; Aviation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.08.116

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