Alcohol Stabilization of Low Water Content Pyrolysis
Oil during High Temperature Treatment
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addition of alcohols is a promising method to pretreat and
stabilize pyrolysis oil by converting carboxylic acids and reactive
carbonyl compounds into esters, ethers, and acetals. In this study
a series of alcoholsmethanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol,
or 1-octanolwas added to crude pyrolysis oil, and these mixtures
were stored at 200 °C for different periods from 6 to 50 h to
investigate the impact of heat treatment on the oils’ physicochemical
properties. All oil/alcohol mixtures were characterized by Karl Fisher
titration, viscometer/rheometer, differential scanning calorimetry
(DSC), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), Fourier transform infrared
(FTIR) spectroscopy, and gas chromatography–mass (GC-MS) spectrometry.
Phase separation is observed for all aged oil/alcohol mixtures. The
time-dependent rheologies of heat treated oil/1-propanol, oil/2-propanol,
and oil/1-octanol mixtures are found to be well fitted by the Herschel–Bulkley
model. Isothermal DSC traces directly confirm that low molecular mass
(LMM) alcohols (methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, and 2-propanol) improve
the stability of pyrolysis oil. Although 1-octanol is less efficient
in slowing the aging reactions, it significantly reduces the increase
rate of viscosity and molecular weight of pyrolysis oil compared with
LMM alcohols. FTIR spectra suggest reactive carbonyl and aldehyde
groups are captured by the added monofunctional alcohols. GC-MS results
indicate esterifications contribute significantly to mitigate aging
reactions. The introduction of LMM alcohols or a combination of LMM
alcohols and HMM alcohols is a promising pretreatment method before
the further catalytic upgrading procedure on the crude pyrolysis oil.
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Zhang, Laibao; Luo, Yan; Wijayapala, Rangana; Walters, Keisha B. (2017). Alcohol Stabilization of Low Water Content Pyrolysis
Oil during High Temperature Treatment. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b02276
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AUTHORS (4)
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Laibao Zhang
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Yan Luo
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Rangana Wijayapala
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Keisha B. Walters