Journal
FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 211, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2020.106590
Keywords
High-pressure distillation; Reactive distillation; Bio-oil; Polymerisation; High distillate yield
Funding
- ARENA as part of ARENA's Emerging Renewables Program
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This study suggests that distillation of bio-oil at high pressure can effectively reduce polymerisation and increase distillate yields. High pressure not only reduces polymerisation, but also intensifies the flash separation step.
The upgrading of bio-oil with the existing distillation technologies is mainly hindered by polymerisation due to the reactive nature of bio-oil when it is heated up during distillation. We propose that the distillation of bio-oil at high pressure can significantly reduce the extent of polymerisation. This study aims to investigate the roles of process parameters, especially pressure, in the high-pressure reactive distillation of bio-oil produced from the pyrolysis of mallee woody biomass. The bio-oil distillation fraction yields and properties were evaluated to demonstrate the advantages of the distillation at elevated pressures over distillation at atmospheric pressure. Our results indicate that high-pressure distillation can achieve high distillate yields with reduced polymerisation because high pressure can retain water and other light components in the liquid phase to reduce the extent of polymerisation. Besides reducing the polymerisation, high pressure could also intensify the separation during the flash separation step. The distillate yield was around 90% when the distillation was carried out at 200 degrees C at a pressure higher than 20 barg.
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