Pilot-Scale Continuous Plug-Flow Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Food Waste for Biocrude Production

Summers, Sabrina; Valentine, Amanda; Wang, Zixin; Zhang, Yuanhui

doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.3c01587

Pilot-Scale Continuous Plug-Flow Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Food Waste for Biocrude Production

Journal Article · Fri Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c01587· OSTI ID:2479244

Summers, Sabrina ^[1]; Valentine, Amanda ^[2]; Wang, Zixin ^[2]; ^[2]

University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, IL (United States); University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, IL (United States)

Pilot-scale hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of biowaste is a critical step toward commercialization of the HTL technology. Despite many HTL studies conducted with wet biomass, including food waste, few were performed with a pilot-scale continuous plug-flow reactor (PFR), with the biocrude yield and quality analysis based on dewatering (ASTM D2892 Annex X1). This paper describes the development and performance evaluation of a mobile pilot-scale HTL continuous PFR, with a processing capacity of 60 L/h of wet feedstock and 6 L/h of biocrude production. The reactor system was designed for reaction conditions of up to 325 °C and 17.25 MPa. The reactor has a volume of 28.88 L with an additional counterflow heat exchanger volume of 18.07 L. Two types of food wastes, from a food processing plant and grocery store, were processed at 280 °C for 30 min, producing biocrude oil yields of 52.19 and 47.06 wt %, energy recoveries of 68.17 and 70.77%, and carbon recoveries of 66.91 and 64.78%, respectively. Furthermore, due to its high feedstock capacity and reaction volume, large amounts of biocrude oil and post-HTL wastewater (PHW) were obtained from this pilot-scale reactor to allow downstream research on upgrading biocrude oil for transportation fuel as well as PHW treatment and nutrient recovery.

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Research Organization:: University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO); National Science Foundation (NSF); U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0009269

OSTI ID:: 2479244

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2424562

Journal Information:: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal Name: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Journal Issue: 31 Vol. 62; ISSN 0888-5885

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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