KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy

  • 제2권3호
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  • Pages.447-452
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  • 2016
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  • 2465-8111(pISSN)
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  • 2466-0124(eISSN)
한국전력공사 (Korea Electric Power Corporation)
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A Complete, Reductive Depolymerization of Concentrated Sulfuric Acid Hydrolysis Lignin into a High Calorific Bio-oil using Supercritical Ethanol

  • Riaz, Asim (School of Mechanical Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Jaehoon (School of Mechanical Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
  • 투고 : 2016.06.07
  • 심사 : 2016.08.19
  • 발행 : 2016.09.30
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It is imperative to develop an effective pathway to depolymerize lignin into liquid fuel that can be used as a bioheavy oil. Lignin can be converted into liquid products either by a solvent-free thermal cracking in the absence air, or thermo-chemical degradation in the presence of suitable solvents and chemicals. Here we show that the solvent-assisted liquefaction has produced promising results in the presence of metal-based catalysts. The supercritical ethanol is an efficient liquefaction solvent, which not only provides better solubility to lignin, but also scavenges the intermediate species. The concentrated sulfuric acid hydrolysis lignin (CSAHL) was completely liquefied in the presence of solid catalysts (Ni, Pd and Ru) with no char formation. The effective deoxy-liquefaction nature associated with scEtOH with aid hydrodeoxygenation catalysts, resulted in significant reduction in oxygen-to-carbon (O/C) molar ratio up to 61%. The decrease in oxygen content and increase in carbon and hydrogen contents increased the calorific value bio-oil, with higher heating value (HHV) of $34.6MJ{\cdot}Kg^{-1}$. The overall process is energetically efficient with 129.8% energy recovery (ER) and 70.8% energy efficiency (EE). The GC-TOF/MS analysis of bio-oil shows that the bio-oil mainly consists of monomeric species such as phenols, esters, furans, alcohols, and traces of aliphatic hydrocarbons. The bio-oil produced has better flow properties, low molecular weight, and high aromaticity.

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