Process development status of fast pyrolysis technologies for the manufacture of renewable transport fuels from biomass

Greg Perkins, Thallada Bhaskar and Muxina Konarova

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018, vol. 90, issue C, 292-315

Abstract: Fast pyrolysis is a promising thermochemical method of producing renewable fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste feedstocks. There is much interest in optimising the choice of feedstock pre-treatments, reaction conditions, reactor designs, and catalysts as well as product upgrading steps to improve the techno-economic feasibility of the process. This article summarizes the current state-of-art in thermal and catalytic fast pyrolysis and outlines the major considerations for process development. The status of process technologies and development efforts on thermal and catalytic fast pyrolysis are reviewed, with a focus on efforts producing bio-oil for use in manufacturing transport fuels or fuel blends as the final product.

Keywords: Biomass; Pyrolysis; Catalysis; Process development; Bio-fuels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.03.048

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