Effect of autohydrolysis pretreatment on biomass structure and the resulting bio-oil from a pyrolysis process

Hao, Naijia; Bezerra, Tais Lacerda; Wu, Qiong; Ben, Haoxi; Sun, Qining; Adhikari, Sushil; Ragauskas, Arthur J.

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2017.06.013

Title: Effect of autohydrolysis pretreatment on biomass structure and the resulting bio-oil from a pyrolysis process

Journal Article · Thu Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Fuel

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.06.013· OSTI ID:1376585

^[1]; Bezerra, Tais Lacerda ^[1]; Wu, Qiong ^[1]; Ben, Haoxi ^[2]; Sun, Qining ^[1]; Adhikari, Sushil ^[3];

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Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Key Lab of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control of Minstry of Education, Nanjing (China); Southeast Univ., Nanjing (China)
Auburn Univ., AL (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Pyrolysis is a promising method for converting biomass to biofuels. However, some of pyrolysis oil's physiochemical properties still limit its commercial applications. Here, the autohydrolysis pretreatment at 175 ± 3 °C for 40 min was conducted to improve the resulting pine pyrolysis oil’s properties as a fuel. During autohydrolysis, deacetylation and decomposition of hemicellulose was observed by ion-exchange chromatography and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Additionally, the cleavage of lignin ether bonds was clearly determined by ¹³C cross-polarization/magic angle spinning (CP/MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Phosphitylation followed by ³¹P NMR analysis of the heavy oils gave detailed structural information of the hydroxyl groups; the results revealed that autohydrolysis pretreatment led to a reduction of carboxyl acids in the heavy oils generated at all three pyrolysis temperatures (400, 500, and 600 °C). The ³¹P NMR analysis also revealed that autohydrolysis pretreatment led to a reduction of condensed phenolic hydroxyl groups in the heavy oils produced at 600 °C. ¹H-¹³C heteronuclear single-quantum correlation (HSQC) NMR analysis showed that at a pyrolysis temperature of 600 °C, the pretreated pine produced lower methoxy group constituents. In both ³¹P and HSQC NMR results indicated that autohydrolysis pretreatment increased levoglucosan yields in the bio-oils.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; NSF-CBET-1333372

OSTI ID:: 1376585

Journal Information:: Fuel, Vol. 206, Issue C; ISSN 0016-2361

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