Biogasoline from catalytic cracking of wood-derived oil over nano catalyst

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Author	Saad, Abdulrahim
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The aim of this thesis was to study the viability of upgrading wood derived oils to generate biogasoline and to gain a fundamental understanding of the operating conditions of the process by using a commercial zeolite catalyst compared with a prepared nanocrystalline zeolite catalyst. Zeolite catalysts have been exploited for producing renewable fuels suitable for gasoline applications. In this study, experimental studies were carried out on the conversion of rubberwood derived liquids obtained as a by-product during the pyrolysis of wood in charcoal manufacturing to produce organic liquid products (OLP) where the interested fraction was the gasoline portion, particularly gasoline-range aromatics (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes; BTEX), which have potential fuel applications due to their high octane rating appropriate for blending gasoline. The experiments were conducted in a dual reactor using an ordinary commercial HZSM-5 catalyst and a nanocrystalline HZSM-5 catalyst. The crude pyrolysis liquids derived from rubberwood included aqueous phase and settled tar. The settled tar was separated by decantation as a first fraction and labelled as pyrolysis tar (PT). The aqueous phase was treated to remove water by evaporation and the concentrated liquid was then named pyrolysis oil (PO) as a second fraction. The pyrolysis oil (PO) itself was fractionated into two fractions by a conventional vacuum distillation. The two fractions were labelled as
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