Comparison of Catalytic Characteristics of Biomass Derivates with Different Structures Over ZSM-5
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Comparison of Catalytic Characteristics of Biomass Derivates with Different Structures Over ZSM-5 Shanshan Shao & Huiyan Zhang & Rui Xiao & Dekui Shen & Jian Zheng
# Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Abstract The conversion of three major biomass derivates was conducted in a quartz tubular fixed bed reactor over a ZSM-5 catalyst. As the model compounds of polyols, saturated furans and unsaturated furans, ethylene glycol (EG), tetrahydrofuran (THF) and furan were pyrolyzed to find out the influence of chemical structure on the catalytic characteristics. The effect of pyrolysis temperature (400∼650 °C), weight hourly space velocity (2.9∼15.5 h−1) and partial pressure (2.12∼20.49 Torr) on the feed conversion, product yield and selectivity were investigated. The hydrogen to carbon effective ratio (H/Ceff) was referred to, to analyze the capacity of biomass derivates being converted to chemicals (olefins and aromatics). The results showed that the existence of rings and C=C had great effect on the catalytic characteristics. The conversion of furan was much lower (mainly less than 60 %) than that of EG and TH,F which were close to 100 %. It was also found that the chemical yield of THF was slightly more than that of EG, which can be attributed to its relative higher H/Ceff of 1.5. Furan produced the highest coke yield, which was more than 15 %, whereas that of EG and THF was only around 5 %. The serious coking of furan led to the lowest chemical yield, which was less than 35 %. This study paves a way for the mechanism study on catalytic characteristics of biomass-derived feedstocks over zeolite catalysts. Keywords Biomass derivates . Bio-oil . Catalytic pyrolysis . ZSM-5 . Hydrogen to carbon effective ratio S. Shao : H. Zhang : R. Xiao : D. Shen : J. Zheng Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control, Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China R. Xiao (*) Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Sipailou #2, Nanjing 210096, People’s Republic of China e-mail: [email protected]
Introduction Biomass energy is the only renewable energy that can be converted into fuels, chemicals and function materials, realizing fossil energy partial substitution. Biomass is also the only organic carbon source in the post-fossil period. In the past years, attention has been paid to the converting solid biomass to energy, liquid chemicals or synthesis gas by direct combustion, gasification, pyrolysis and hydrothermal treatment [1–7]. Due to the low efficiency in the combustion and gasification process, technique shortcomings hindered their industrialization process. Recently, biomass fast pyrolysis (BFP) has been regarded as a promising technique that can convert biomass into fuels (biooil) with high efficiency. The direct use of bio-oil can only be found in the boilers, and subsequent upgrading is essential for further employment as transportation fuel or chemicals, because of its acidity, high m
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