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ENERGY & FUELS
Volume 24, Issue 9, Pages 4659-4667Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ef901218w
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- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)
- FedNor
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Alcohol (methanol or ethanol) and water showed synergistic effects on biomass direct liquefaction, and the 50 wt % co-solvent of either methanol-water or ethanol-water was found to be the most effective solvent for the liquefaction of eastern white pine sawdust. The 50 wt % aqueous alcohol at 300 degrees C for 15 min produced a bio-oil yield at approximately 65 wt % and a biomass conversion of >95%. At a temperature higher than 300 degrees C, conversion of bio-oil to char was significant by repolymerization. The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses of the obtained bio-oils confirmed the presence of primarily phenolic compounds and their derivatives (such as benzenes), followed by aldehyde, long-chain (and cyclic) ketone and alcohol, ester, organic acid, and ether compounds. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) results suggested that hot-compressed ethanol as the liquefaction solvent favored lignin degradation into monomeric phenols. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of sawdust before and after the liquefaction displayed that the cellulosic structure of the feedstock was completely converted into amorphous carbon at around 300 degrees C and into crystalline carbon at about 350 degrees C.
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