Journal
CATALYSIS TODAY
Volume 100, Issue 3-4, Pages 331-335Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2004.10.021
Keywords
bio-oil; hydrodeoxygenation; HDO; cobalt-molybdenum; nickel-molybdenum; methyl ester
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Wood-derived bio-oil contains high amounts of compounds with different oxygen-containing functional groups that must be removed to improve the fuel characteristics. Elimination of oxygen from carboxylic groups was studied with model compounds, methyl heptanoate and methyl hexanoate, on sulphided NiMo/gamma-Al2O3 and CoMo/gamma-Al2O3 catalysts in a flow reactor. Catalyst performances and reaction schemes were addressed. Aliphatic methyl esters produced hydrocarbons via three main paths: The first path gave alcohols followed by dehydration to hydrocarbons. Deesterification yielded an alcohol and a carboxylic acid in the second path. Carboxylic acid was further converted to hydrocarbons either directly or with an alcohol intermediate. Decarboxylation of the esters led to hydrocarbons in the third path. No oxygen-containing compounds were detected at complete conversions. However, the product distributions changed with time, even at complete conversions, indicating that both catalysts deactivated under the studied conditions. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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