Alga, rich in lipids and nitrogen, is a promising biofuel feedstock to alleviate the fossil fuel scarcity and reduce CO2 emission and thus is pyrolyzed to obtain bio-oil. To further reduce the content of heteroatoms (O and N) within bio-oil, catalyst was applied to the pyrolysis. Aiming at developing economical catalyst, this study takes algal char from pyrolysis of Sargassum fusiforme (SF) as the feedstock of nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst and evaluate the catalyst performance on SF pyrolysis. Specifically, several catalyst preparation parameters, such as chemical activation agents (NaOH and KOH), activation temperature (700–900 °C), the ratio of chemical activating agents (50 %–66.7 %) and activation atmosphere, were systematically considered. The obtained catalyst was evaluated and applied to catalyze the pyrolysis of SF. It was found that the optimized condition was 800 °C and 40 % load of NaOH and such activation enhances the catalyst's specific surface area, predominantly microporous structure and higher pyrrolic nitrogen and oxidized nitrogen. Especially, NaOH activation, rather than KOH activation, facilitates the incorporation of more pyrrolic nitrogen and oxidized nitrogen. With these beneficial properties, catalyst effectively facilitated the cracking and reformation of volatile compounds through decarboxylation, decarbonylation, dehydration, and aromatization reactions, resulting in an increase in hydrocarbons in the bio-oil to 27.79 % and a rise in non-condensable gases from 22.65 wt% to 28.67 %-33.05 wt%. With such findings, this study shows the feasible application of self-originating catalyst to catalytic pyrolysis.
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