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JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 72-76Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S2095-4956(15)60286-8
Keywords
lignin; liquefaction; degradation; monophenolic compounds; microwave irradiation
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB215302]
- Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Fund [9151064101000082]
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The microwave assisted liquefaction process of wheat straw alkali lignin was investigated to obtain monophenolic compounds as the precursor of bio-fuel. It is found that the total yield of monophenolic compounds is significantly improved under microwave irradiation, reaching 15.77% under a relatively mild liquefaction condition of 10 wt% H2SO4 as the catalyst, 10 wt% phenol as the hydrogen-donor reagent at 120 degrees C for 40 mm. Compared with conventional thermal liquefaction process, microwave irradiation promotes the cleavage of C C bonds, which gives an extra 29% of C-aryl similar to Ca bond cleavage, and increases the yield of monophenolic compounds from 0.92% to 13.61% under the same conditions. The excessive temperature and prolonged time under microwave irradiation will promote the recondensation of degraded lignin fragments, so the key to obtain high yield of monophenolic compounds is to avoid the recondensation reaction. The selected solid catalyst promotes the dissociation of methoxy groups, and the addition of phenol into liquefaction can only slightly improve the yield of monophencolic compounds.
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