Upgrading of heat carrier oil derived from liquid-phase pyrolysis via fluid catalytic cracking

Autor: Alexander Reichhold, P. Pucher, J. Fimberger, M. Berchtold
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Fuel Processing Technology. 142:92-99
ISSN: 0378-3820
Popis: Second generation biofuel technologies are well investigated to extend the amount of sustainable biofuels. One of the most important criterions for biofuels is their profitability. The bioCRACK process is a new and innovative biomass-to-liquid concept to produce advanced biofuels by liquid-phase pyrolysis. A refinery integrated pilot plant was built up at the OMV refinery in Schwechat (Austria) to provide data for up-scaling. The objective of this publication was to test the suitability of different processed heat carrier oils derived from the bioCRACK process as feedstock for the FCC process. Vacuum gas oil – a typical feedstock for fluid catalytic cracking – was used as heat carrier oil. Different case studies were evaluated, whereas spruce wood and wheat straw were used as feedstock for pyrolysis. All experiments were conducted in a fully continuous small scale pilot plant with internally circulating fluidized bed design. In general, the obtained results show a high conversion efficiency for all performed case studies. Thereby the yield of coke is increased a little. The investigation confirmed that the total fuel yield can be improved even more by additional hydrotreatment. It turned out that the use of a pre-hydrotreated vacuum gas oil for pyrolysis leads to the highest conversion level.
Databáze: OpenAIRE