Controlled pinewood fractionation with supercritical ethanol: A prerequisite toward pinewood conversion into chemicals and biofuels |
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Authors: | Ngoc Q Bui Pascal Fongarland Franck Rataboul Cyril Dartiguelongue Nadège Charon Christophe Vallee Nadine Essayem |
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Institution: | 1. Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l''environnement de Lyon, IRCELYON, CNRS, 2, avenue Albert-Einstein, 69626 Villeurbanne, France;2. IFP Énergies Nouvelles, rond-point de l''Échangeur-de-Solaize, BP3, 69360 Solaize, France |
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Abstract: | The objective of this work was to investigate the ability of supercritical (SC) ethanol conditions to attack preferentially the lignin fraction against the carbohydrate fraction and their effects on the product distribution among gases, light products, bio-oils, and chars. In this study, the conversion of each pinewood component was determined by the analysis of solid residues to quantify cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, and char contents. It is shown that, by tuning the temperature, hemicellulose and lignin are already transformed in subcritical ethanol conditions, lignin being more reactive than hemicellulose. In contrast, native wood cellulose is recalcitrant to liquefaction in SC ethanol near the critical point (Tc = 241 °C and Pc = 61 bar), but 20% of native wood cellulose is converted in SC ethanol at 280 °C. Besides, the severity of the conditions, in terms of temperature and treatment time, does not significantly influence the yields of gases, light products, and bio-oils but strongly enhances char formation. Interestingly, the increase in SC ethanol density does not change the conversion of biomass components but has a marked effect on bio-oil yield and prevents char formation. The optimum fractionation conditions to convert the lignin component, while keeping unattacked the cellulose fraction with a minimum formation of char, are dense SC ethanol, at 250 °C for 1 h, in batch conditions. However, although lignin is more reactive than hemicellulose under these conditions, these fractions are converted, in a parallel way, to around 50% and 60%, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Lignocellulosic biomass Fractionation Supercritical ethanol Bio-oils Chars |
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