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Supercritical methanol depolymerization and hydrodeoxygenation of pyrolytic lignin over reduced copper porous metal oxides.
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Green Chemistry . 12/7/2020, Vol. 22 Issue 23, p8403-8413. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Supercritical methanol depolymerization and hydrodeoxygenation (SCM-DHDO) is a process to produce fuel from biomass with supercritical methanol and CuMgAlOx catalyst. Previous research has shown that SCM-DHDO can convert cellulose, lignin and whole biomass feedstock in a single reaction step. In this paper, we show that SCM-DHDO can convert pyrolytic lignin derived from pyrolysis oil at approximately 50% carbon yield to an upgraded oil product. The upgraded oil mainly contains lignin monomers and dimers while an additional 50% of the carbon was converted into undesired products including methanol, insoluble pyrolytic lignin and coke. We demonstrated that after a 4 h SCM-DHDO reaction the pyrolytic lignin molecular weight did not significantly change, but the ketones, acids and aldehydes in the pyrolytic lignin were completely converted. Increasing the reaction time of SCM-DHDO reaction from 2 to 10 h increased the lignin monomer and dimer yield. The reduced CuAlMgOx catalyst hydrogenated 57.4% of the aromatic carbons to aliphatic carbons and removed 64% of the oxygen. However, the product oil could still not be distilled because of the thermal instability of the upgraded pyrolytic lignin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14639262
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 23
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Green Chemistry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147507427
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d0gc02355h