Conversion of Sugar Di-Ketals to Bio-Hydrocarbons through Catalytic Cracking over Beta Catalysts in Fixed and Fluidized Catalytic Beds

Autor: Cristiane Cardoso, Yiu L. Lam, Marlon B. B. de Almeida, Marcelo Maciel Pereira
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Chemistry
Volume 5
Issue 1
Pages: 479-491
ISSN: 2624-8549
DOI: 10.3390/chemistry5010035
Popis: Second-generation biomass (BM) can be produced in amounts that meet worldwide fuel demands. However, BM favors parallel and undesirable reactions in its transformation chain. We circumvent this problem by first modifying BM by ketalization, giving a user-friendly liquid we named BP (bio-petroleum). This study converted a representative compound of BP, DX (1,2:3,5-di-O-isopropylidene-α-D-xylofuranose), mixed with n-hexane by beta zeolites and catalysts containing beta zeolite. Beta zeolite showed low coke and high liquid product yields in converting this mixture (having 30 wt. % DX) into hydrocarbons in a fixed-bed reactor at 500 °C with a space velocity of 16 h−1 (0.3 catalyst/feed). Its performance was further improved by steam treatment (lowering the coke yield by lowering the acid site density) or incorporation into a catalyst (improving DX participation due to the active sites in the matrix). Further, by changing the conversion process from a fixed bed to a fluidized cracking unit, a much larger amount of the deactivated catalyst could be used (catalyst/feed = 3), remarkably reducing oxygenates and fully converting DX. Additionally, the green hydrocarbon efficiency (olefin, aromatics, furans, and cyclo-alkanes) of DX was approximately 77%. Hence, beta catalysts were shown to have a great potential to provide green fuels for future bio-refineries.
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