Comparison of lignocellulosic-based biomass pyrolysis processes by multi-scale molecular characterization

Flash chromatography; FTICR MS; GC×GC; GPC; HPTLC; Pyrolysis wood bio-oil; Bio-oils; Fast pyrolysis; Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry; Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry; High performance thin layer chromatography; Pyrolyse wood bio-oil; Pyrolysis process; Analytical Chemistry; Fuel Technology

Abstract :

[en] Nowadays, biomass is considered one of the key solutions for the energy transition as a renewable energy source. It can be converted by pyrolysis into bio-oil, which can be used for producing biofuels or valuable chemicals. However, bio-oils produced from pyrolysis present high oxygen content and it is necessary to use advanced pyrolysis processes to improve the quality of the bio-oils. In this study, three bio-oils produced by different pyrolysis processes: fast pyrolysis (FP), catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP), and reactive catalytic fast pyrolysis (RCFP) were analyzed using different analytical techniques. A first bulk analysis was performed using proximate and ultimate analysis and gel permeation chromatography with refractive index and UV detection (GPC-RI and GPC-UV), which provided crucial information on the elemental composition and mass distribution of the bio-oil components. A deeper investigation at the molecular level was performed using Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (FTICR MS) and High-Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) to determine detailed molecular classification of the bio-oil components. Finally, a fractionation method using flash chromatography (FC) was used to provide a more accurate chemical description. The obtained fractions were analyzed by two-dimensional “comprehensive” gas chromatography (GC×GC) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) and flame ionization detector (FID), HPTLC, and FTICR MS. The results show that the bio-oils produced from FP and CFP are very similar chemically spoken. The bio-oil from RCFP has less oxygenated products and more unsaturated hydrocarbon species. Therefore, RCFP process was found to be the best process for producing oils with a low O/C ratio.

Disciplines :

Chemistry

Author, co-author :

Mase, Charlotte; Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, Rouen, France ; TotalEnergies One Tech, R&D, Downstream Processes & Polymers, Total Research & Technology Gonfreville, BP 27, Harfleur, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Moulian, Rémi; Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, Rouen, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Lazzari, Eliane ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Molecular Systems (MolSys) ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Garnier, Carole; TotalEnergies One Tech, R&D, Downstream Processes & Polymers, Total Research & Technology Gonfreville, BP 27, Harfleur, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Piparo, Marco; TotalEnergies One Tech, R&D, Downstream Processes & Polymers, Total Research & Technology Gonfreville, BP 27, Harfleur, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Hubert-Roux, Marie; Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, Rouen, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Afonso, Carlos; Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, Rouen, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Dayton, David C.; RTI International, Technology Advancement and Commercialization, United States

Barrère-Mangote, Caroline; TotalEnergies One Tech, R&D, Downstream Processes & Polymers, Total Research & Technology Gonfreville, BP 27, Harfleur, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Giusti, Pierre; Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, Rouen, France ; TotalEnergies One Tech, R&D, Downstream Processes & Polymers, Total Research & Technology Gonfreville, BP 27, Harfleur, France ; International Joint Laboratory, iC2MC: Complex Matrices Molecular Characterization, TRTG, BP 27, Harfleur, France

Language :

English

Title :

Comparison of lignocellulosic-based biomass pyrolysis processes by multi-scale molecular characterization

Publication date :

2024

Journal title :

Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis

ISSN :

0165-2370

eISSN :

1873-250X

Publisher :

Elsevier

Volume :

177

Pages :

106354

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S016523702400007X?httpAccept=text/xml

Funders :

Université de Rouen
ERDF - European Regional Development Fund
EU - European Union

Funding text :

The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests Caroline Barrere-Mangote reports financial support was provided by TotalEnergies OneTech. Caroline Barrere-Mangote reports a relationship with TotalEnergies OneTech that includes: employment. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.The authors thank RTI International for providing the samples. This work has been partially supported by the University of Rouen Normandy, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF, HN0001343), Labex SynOrg (Grant ANR-11- LABX-0029), Carnot Institute I2C, the Graduate School for Research XL-Chem (Grant ANR-18EURE-0020), the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures program (Grant Agreement 731077), région Normandie. Access to the CNRS research infrastructure Infranalytics (FR2054) is gratefully acknowledged. List of Figures and Tables, GPC calibration; DBE vs carbon number plot of CH class; Flash and HPTLC chromatograms; FTICR MS additional results on flash chromatography; GC×GC chromatograms.The authors thank RTI International for providing the samples. This work has been partially supported by the University of Rouen Normandy , the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF, HN0001343 ), Labex SynOrg (Grant ANR-11- LABX-0029 ), Carnot Institute I2C, the Graduate School for Research XL-Chem (Grant ANR-18EURE-0020 ), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures program (Grant Agreement 731077 ), région Normandie. Access to the CNRS research infrastructure Infranalytics ( FR2054 ) is gratefully acknowledged.

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