Novel Approaches to Low Carbon Advanced Hydrocarbon Biofuels and Co-products

全球经济正在迅速转向低碳或零碳重点，强烈希望实现经济多样化和环境可持续性。 加拿大在减少温室气体以及致力于使我们的能源使用多样化，从石油和煤炭转向可再生能源系统方面采取了坚定的立场。* 在过去的14年里，NSERC发现赠款使Bressler实验室成为开发新型先进生物燃料技术的关键贡献者和国际领导者。 该发现计划开发了脂质转化碳氢化合物（LTH）技术背后的科学，这是一种高温转化技术，专注于在不使用催化剂或氢气的情况下将脂质资源转化为碳氢化合物燃料的低碳足迹。* 由NSERC支持的基础研究活动，让位于专利，技术许可，试点活动，现在终于在2018年在安大略桑布拉的商业部署，通过加拿大可持续发展技术的支持，战略投资，以及阿尔伯塔大学分拆公司Forge Hydrocarbons的创建。尽管LTH技术已成功商业化，但已确定了几个新的基础研究机会，这些机会将补充这一平台技术，提高这些燃料的可持续性和经济耐用性。 在接下来的5年里，我们正在制定一项积极的研究计划，旨在为这一新技术平台开发新的产品组合。* 主题：首先，将探索先进的交换树脂，以有效地分离和回收现有技术的短链脂肪酸副产物。 这种方法有望取代目前的碱洗，并将同时追求从树脂中回收溶剂以及树脂的超临界流体再生。 第二个重点是用产油生物发酵价值较低的短链酸。*主题B：第二条调查线将集中在从LTH技术到生物喷气燃料产品的一部分原料烃产品流的精炼、异构化和升级。 这一举措与国家战略非常一致，可能提供一种成本更低、碳足迹更好的新方法。主题C：最后，Bressler实验室最近（2017年）建造并调试了第一台高压高温微波热解反应器。该研究项目的目标是通过将微波加热结合起来，探索LTH技术的一步变化进步，从而解锁新的动力学和产品机会。这一未被探索的热解化学领域将产生许多主要的出版物和发现，迄今为止，所有的微波加热都仅限于环境压力或低压。

The global economy is rapidly shifting towards a low, or zero, carbon focus with a strong desire for economic diversification and environmental sustainability. Canada has taken strong positions on both greenhouse gas abatement as well as commitments towards diversifying our energy usage away from petroleum and coal towards renewable energy systems. ***Over the past 14 years, NSERC Discovery grants have enabled the Bressler laboratory to be a key contributor and international leader in the development of a novel advanced biofuel technology. This Discovery program has developed the science behind the Lipid-to-Hydrocarbon (LTH) technology, which is a high temperature conversion technology, focused on the low carbon footprint conversion of lipid resources to hydrocarbon fuels without the use of catalysts or hydrogen. ***The basic research activities, supported by NSERC, gave way to patenting, licensing of the technology, pilot activities, and now finally commercial deployment in 2018 in Sombra, Ontario through the support of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, strategic investment, and the creation of Forge Hydrocarbons, a University of Alberta spin-off company.***Although the LTH technology is well positioned for successful commercialization, several new opportunities for basic research have been identified that would compliment this platform technology enhancing both the sustainability and the economic durability of these fuels. Over the next 5 years, an aggressive research plan is being developed that will seek to develop a new portfolio of products for this new technology platform. ***THEME A: Firstly, advanced exchange resins will be explored to efficiently separate and recover short chain fatty acid byproducts of the current technology. This approach is poised to replace the current caustic wash and will simultaneously pursue solvent recovery from the resin as well as supercritical fluid regeneration of the resins. The second key focus will be fermentation of the less valuable short chain acids with oleaginous organisms.***THEME B: The second line of investigation will focus on the refining, isomerization and upgrading of a portion of the raw hydrocarbon product stream from the LTH technology to a biojet fuel product. This initiative aligns well with national strategies and may provide a novel approach with lower costs and better carbon footprint.***THEME C: Finally, The Bressler laboratory has recently (2017) constructed and commissioned the first high pressure and temperature microwave pyrolytic reactor. The goal of this research project will be to look into a step change advancement of the LTH technology through the incorporation of microwave heating unlocking new kinetics and product opportunities. This unexplored regime of pyroltic chemistry will yield numerous primary publications and discoveries as to date, all microwave heating has been limited to ambient or low pressures.