Renewable Hydrocarbon Production from Waste Cottonseed Oil Pyrolysis and Catalytic Upgrading of Vapors with Mo-Co and Mo-Ni Catalysts Supported on γ-Al2O3

In this work, the production of renewable hydrocarbons was explored by the means of waste cottonseed oil (WCSO) micropyrolysis at 500 °C. Catalytic upgrading of the pyrolysis vapors was studied using α-Al2O3, γ-Al2O3, Mo-Co/γ-Al2O3, and Mo-Ni/γ-Al2O3 catalysts. The oxygen removal efficiency was much...

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Published in:Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2021-06, Vol.11 (7), p.1659
Main Authors: Melo, Josué Alves, de Sá, Mirele Santana, Moral, Ainara, Bimbela, Fernando, Gandía, Luis M., Wisniewski, Alberto
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alkenes
Aluminum oxide
Aromatic compounds
Aviation
Biodiesel fuels
biofuels
Biomass
Carbon
Catalysts
Chemical composition
Chromatography
COVID-19
Decarboxylation
deoxygenation
Emissions
Fatty acids
Gases
Hydrocarbons
Mass spectrometry
Molecular weight
Molybdenum
Nickel
Nitrates
Oils & fats
Oxygen
Oxygenation
Paraffins
Pyrolysis
Scientific imaging
Transitional aluminas
Vapors
vegetable oil
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Summary:In this work, the production of renewable hydrocarbons was explored by the means of waste cottonseed oil (WCSO) micropyrolysis at 500 °C. Catalytic upgrading of the pyrolysis vapors was studied using α-Al2O3, γ-Al2O3, Mo-Co/γ-Al2O3, and Mo-Ni/γ-Al2O3 catalysts. The oxygen removal efficiency was much lower in non-catalytic pyrolysis (18.0%), whilst γ-Al2O3 yielded a very high oxygen removal efficiency (91.8%), similar to that obtained with Mo-Co/γ-Al2O3 (92.8%) and higher than that attained with Mo-Ni/γ-Al2O3 (82.0%). Higher conversion yields into total renewable hydrocarbons were obtained with Mo-Co/γ-Al2O3 (61.9 wt.%) in comparison to Mo-Ni/γ-Al2O3 (46.6%). GC/MS analyses showed a relative chemical composition of 31.3, 86.4, and 92.6% of total renewable hydrocarbons and 58.7, 7.2, and 4.2% of oxygenated compounds for non-catalytic bio-oil (BOWCSO), BOMoNi and BOMoCo, respectively. The renewable hydrocarbons that were derived from BOMoNi and BOMoCo were mainly composed by olefins (35.3 and 33.4%), aromatics (31.4 and 28.9%), and paraffins (13.8 and 25.7%). The results revealed the catalysts’ effectiveness in FFA decarbonylation and decarboxylation, as evidenced by significant changes in the van Krevelen space, with the lowest O/C ratio values for BOMoCo and BOMoNi (O/C = 0–0.10) in relation to the BOWCSO (O/C = 0.10–0.20), and by a decrease in the presence of oxygenated compounds in the catalytic bio-oils.
ISSN:2079-4991
2079-4991
DOI:10.3390/nano11071659