Journal
FUEL
Volume 216, Issue -, Pages 341-348Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2017.12.016
Keywords
HTL; Hydrothermal liquefaction; Biocrude; Biomass; FT-ICR; Mass spectrometry
Categories
Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Bioenergy Technologies Office)
- United States National Science Foundation [IIA-1301346, MRI-1626468]
- Center for Animal Health and Food Safety at New Mexico State University
- NSF Division of Materials Research [DMR-11-57490]
- Office Of The Director
- Office of Integrative Activities [1301346] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) is utilized for direct comparison of the chemical composition of biocrudes generated from the hydrothermal liquefaction of 100% pine, 100% algae, 75:25 pine: algae, and 50:50 pine: algae feedstocks. This analysis reveals that the composition of the 72:25 and 50:50 pine: algal HTL biocrudes is essentially a composite of the two parent feeds (i.e., pine and algae) with a lower relative abundance of O-x species and a higher relative abundance of nitrogen-containing species than the pine HTL biocrude. Alternatively, the biocrude blends have a lower relative abundance of nitrogen-containing species where N > 2 than the algal HTL biocrude. The 75:25 pine:algal HTL biocrude has more elemental formulae in common with the pine HTL biocrude than the 50:50 blend; however, both blends have more elemental formulae in common with the algal HTL biocrude. Interestingly, > 20% of the elemental formulae assigned to monoisotopic peaks within the 75:25 and 50:50 biocrude blends are species not present in either the pine or algal HTL biocrudes. The highest relative abundance of these new species belong to the N2O4-6 classes, which correspond to heteroatom classes with a moderate number of nitrogen atoms and higher number of oxygen atoms per molecules than the species within the pure algal HTL biocrude. Compositionally, the novel species have the same structural motif but are of higher DBE and carbon numbers than the species within the algal HTL biocrude. These original species are most likely generated from reactions between molecules from both feeds, which results in compounds with higher oxygen content than typically seen in the algal HTL biocrude but also higher nitrogen contents than observed in the pine HTL biocrude.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available