Integrated manufacturing of REciclable multi-material COmposites for the TRANSport sector

Heavy bio-oil based carbon material (HBC) was prepared via carbonization and activation, and the basic Mg-Al-O/HBC using HBC as the carrier was synthesized for the first time for the aldol condensation of cyclopentanone to produce aviation fuel precursor. It revealed that a higher carbonization temperature and heating rate led to the decreasing production of biochar. HBC presented the highest specific surface area (2046.92 m2/g) and total pore volume (1.2964 cm3/g) at the carbonization temperature of 700 °C, the heating rate of 15 °C/min, A/C ratio of 3:1, and the activation temperature of 800 °C, in which the largest proportion of micropores was 87.19%. Compared with Mg-Al-O, a higher strength of weak and moderate basic sites was found in Mg-Al-O/HBC, which was beneficial for the aldol condensation. A higher yield of targeted condensates in the range of C9?C16 was achieved at 87.28% in the aldol condensation of cyclopentanone over Mg-Al-O/HBC catalyst. However, the condensation performance of the composite catalysts decreased seriously in the 5th run, which was related closely to the appearance of boehmite AlO(OH) and the pore blockage of HBC. To match the basic catalyst and HBC carrier well from the viewpoint of pore property, Al ions were substituted with Zr ions, and the yield of the target condensates over Mg-Zr-O/HBC was kept stably at 72.07% at the fifth use. This study provides a unique, viable and effective method to produce porous carbon from heavy fraction of bio-oil as the carbon source, and also its good application in the production of high-valued fuels.

» Author: Shanshan Shao, Laixin Ma, Xiaohua Li, Huiyan Zhang, Rui Xiao

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