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Production of hydrogen, liquid fuels, and chemicals from catalytic processing of bio-oils

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1133664
Disclosed herein is a method of generating hydrogen from a bio-oil, comprising hydrogenating a water-soluble fraction of the bio-oil with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, and reforming the water-soluble fraction by aqueous-phase reforming in the presence of a reforming catalyst, wherein hydrogen is generated by the reforming, and the amount of hydrogen generated is greater than that consumed by the hydrogenating. The method can further comprise hydrocracking or hydrotreating a lignin fraction of the bio-oil with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrocracking catalyst wherein the lignin fraction of bio-oil is obtained as a water-insoluble fraction from aqueous extraction of bio-oil. The hydrogen used in the hydrogenating and in the hydrocracking or hydrotreating can be generated by reforming the water-soluble fraction of bio-oil.
Research Organization:
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-07ER86324
Assignee:
University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)
Patent Number(s):
8,741,258
Application Number:
13/119,750
OSTI ID:
1133664
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

Pyrolysis of Wood/Biomass for Bio-oil: A Critical Review journal May 2006
Historical Developments in Hydroprocessing Bio-oils journal May 2007
Overview of Applications of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis Oil journal March 2004
Hydrogen from catalytic reforming of biomass-derived hydrocarbons in liquid water journal August 2002

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