A Hybrid Pathway to Biojet Fuel via 2,3-Butanediol

Adhikari, Shiba P.; Zhang, Junyan; Guo, Qianying; Unocic, Kinga; Tao, Ling; Li, Zhenglong

doi:10.1039/d0se00480d

A Hybrid Pathway to Biojet Fuel via 2,3-Butanediol

Journal Article · Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Sustainable Energy & Fuels

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/d0se00480d· OSTI ID:1649338

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Production of biomass-derived sustainable alternative jet fuels (SAJF) has been considered as an important approach to decarbonize the aviation industry but still possesses various challenges in technology advancement, particularly in achieving high carbon efficiency. Here we report a hybrid pathway to SAJF from 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO), integrating biologically converting biomass to 2,3-BDO with catalytically upgrading of 2,3-BDO to jet-range hydrocarbons. This pathway is demonstrated to have a high carbon recovery to liquid hydrocarbons from corn stover (25–28%) (74–82% of the theoretical maximum efficiency). The catalytic conversion steps involve 2,3-BDO to C₃₊ olefins, oligomerization, and hydrogenation where the first two steps are the focus of this study. Under optimum reaction conditions (523 K, 115 kPa, 1.0 h^-1 weight hourly space velocity), 2,3-BDO conversion and C₃₊ olefin selectivity are >97% and 94–98% during 40 h time on stream, respectively. To demonstrate the adaptability of this technology with bio-derived 2,3-BDO, we also investigated the impact of water and other organic coproducts (acetoin and acetic acid) inherited from the fermentation broth on the catalyst performance and product selectivities. We have shown that the catalyst can handle a significant amount of water in the liquid feed (40 wt% water/60 wt% 2,3-BDO) and maintain catalyst stability for ~40 h. Acetoin can be converted to similar C₃₊ olefins as 2,3-BDO with complete conversion of acetoin. Co-feeding 10 wt% acetoin with 2,3-BDO is found to have no impact on 2,3-BDO conversion, C₃₊ olefin selectivity, and catalyst stability. The utilization of organic coproduct like acetoin can help to improve overall carbon conversion efficiency when using real biomass-derived 2,3-BDO. On the other hand, the presence of 10 wt% acetic acid is shown to drastically inhibit methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) hydrogenation and butene oligomerization as revealed by the increased MEK and butene selectivities, implying the importance of separating organic acids when feeding bio-derived 2,3-BDO. The formed C₃–C₆ olefins from 2,3-BDO are further oligomerized over Amberlyst-36 catalyst to longer-chain hydrocarbons with >70 wt% jet-range hydrocarbons including predominantly iso-olefins/iso-paraffins. Finally, the overall carbon efficiency for the jet-range hydrocarbons is 19–22%, exceeding most of the reported biojet pathways, which makes it a promising approach for SAJF production.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1649338

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1726067
OSTI ID: 1617392

Journal Information:: Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Journal Name: Sustainable Energy & Fuels Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 4; ISSN 2398-4902

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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