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Creating values from wastes: Producing biofuels from waste cooking oil via a tandem vapor-phase hydrotreating process

Jia Wang, Jianchun Jiang, Dongxian Li, Xianzhi Meng, Guowu Zhan, Yunpu Wang, Aihua Zhang, Yunjuan Sun, Roger Ruan and Arthur J. Ragauskas

Applied Energy, 2022, vol. 323, issue C, No S030626192200931X

Abstract: This study is focused on producing biofuels from waste oils via a tandem vapor-phase hydrotreating process in a pressurized two-stage fixed bed reactor over a bifunctional Ni/Al2O3-SiO2 catalyst under 0.25 MPa H2. A 100% hydrodeoxygenation efficiency both in liquid and gas products was observed, yielding 83.9 wt% C5-C19 n-alkanes which corresponds to a 7.4-fold increase compared with that obtained from non-catalytic conversion. The hydrodeoxygenation mechanism of waste cooking oil in the catalytic tandem hydrotreating process induced by Ni/Al2O3-SiO2 was proposed. The hydropyrolysis temperature in the first reactor, hydrogenation temperature in the second reactor, reaction pressure, catalyst to waste cooking oil mass ratio, and gas hourly space velocity (GHSV) was optimized at 550 °C, 300 °C, 0.25 MPa, 3, and 56 s−1, respectively. The application potential of this cascade vapor-phase hydrotreating process was evaluated by employing different waste oils such as palm kernel oil, woody oil (swida wilsoniana), soapstock, and waste lubricating oil as feedstock, giving C5 to C19 n-alkane yields ranging from 21.6 to 87.5 wt%. This work provides a novel and promising approach to upcycle waste oils into upgraded biofuels compared with conventional catalytic pyrolysis.

Keywords: Waste oils; Hydropyrolysis; Tandem vapor-phase hydrotreating; Biofuels; N-alkanes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119629

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