Chinese Team Develops Novel Process for Upgrading Bio-oil to Bio-gasoline via Molecular Distillation and Catalytic Cracking

摘要

A research team at Zhejiang University, China has developed a novel cracking technology for upgrading pyroylitic bio-oil from biomass into bio-gasoline. In a paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels on September 3, the team report that the co-cracking of the distilled fraction (DF) from bio-oil molecular distillation and ethanol produced a well-defined gasoline phase, and that both increasing the reaction temperature and adopting pressurized cracking benefited the yield and quality of this gasoline phase.