Hydrocarbon fuels from brown grease: Moving from the research laboratory toward an industrial process
Hydrocarbon fuels from brown grease: Moving from the research laboratory toward an industrial process
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来自棕色油脂的碳氢化合物燃料:从研究实验室转向工业过程
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2017
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Yoke
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L. M. Pratt;J. Strothers;Travis Pinnock;Dickens Saint Hilaire;Beatrice Bacolod;Z. Cai;Yoke
Brown grease is a generic term for the oily solids and semi-solids that accumulate in the sewer system and in sewage treatment plants. It has previously been shown that brown grease undergoes pyrolysis to form a homologous series of alkanes and 1-alkenes between 7 and 17 carbon atoms, with smaller amounts of higher hydrocarbons and ketones up to about 30 carbon atoms. The initial study was performed in batch mode on a scale of up to 50 grams of starting material. However, continuous processes are usually more efficient for large scale production of fuels and commodity chemicals. This work describes the research and development of a continuous process. The first step was to determine the required reactor temperature. Brown grease consists largely of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, and they react at different rates, and produce different products and intermediates. Intermediates include ketones, alcohols, and aldehydes, and Fe(III) ion catalyzes at least some of the reactions. By monitoring the pyrol...