High-pressure fast-pyrolysis, fast-hydropyrolysis and catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of cellulose: production of liquid fuel from biomass

VK Venkatakrishnan, JC Degenstein, AD Smeltz…

Index: Venkatakrishnan, Vinod Kumar; Degenstein, John C.; Smeltz, Andrew D.; Delgass, W. Nicholas; Agrawal, Rakesh; Ribeiro, Fabio H. Green Chemistry, 2014 , vol. 16, # 2 p. 792 - 802

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Abstract

A lab-scale, high-pressure, continuous-flow fast-hydropyrolysis and vapor-phase catalytic hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) reactor has been successfully designed, built and tested with cellulose as a model biomass feedstock. We investigated the effects of pyrolysis temperature on high-pressure cellulose fast-pyrolysis, hydrogen on high-pressure cellulose fast- hydropyrolysis, reaction pressure (27 bar and 54 bar) on our reactor performance and ...