《Selective conversion of bio-oil to light olefins Controlling catalytic cracking》.pdf

Bioresource Technology 102 (2011) 9247–9254 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Bioresource Technology journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/biortech Selective conversion of bio-oil to light olefins: Controlling catalytic cracking for maximum olefins Feiyan Gong, Zhi Yang, Chenggui Hong, Weiwei Huang, Shen Ning, Zhaoxia Zhang, Yong Xu, Quanxin Li ⇑ Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Light olefins are the basic building blocks for the petrochemical industry. In this work, selective produc- Received 21 April 2011 tion of light olefins from catalytic cracking of bio-oil was performed by using the La/HZSM-5 catalyst. Received in revised form 30 June 2011 With a nearly complete conversion of bio-oil, the maximum yield reached 0.28 ± 0.02 kg olefins/(kg Accepted 5 July 2011 bio-oil), which was close to that from methanol. Addition of La into zeolite efficiently changed the total Available online 18 July 2011 acid amount of HZSM-5, especially the acid distribution among the strong, medium and weak acid sites. A moderate increase of the number of the medium acid sites effectively enhanced the olefins selectivity and Keywords: improved the catalyst stability. The comparison between the catalytic cracking and pyroly