Author, as appears in the article.: M.P. Caporgno; J. Pruvost; J. Legrand; O. Lepine; M. Tazerout; C. Bengoa
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: CAPORGNO, MARTIN PABLO; J. Pruvost; J. Legrand; O. Lepine; M. Tazerout; BENGOA, CHRISTOPHE JOSÉ
Keywords: Hydrothermal liquefaction Co-solvents
Abstract: Although the hydrothermal liquefaction is considered a promising technology for converting microalgae into liquid biofuels, there are still some disadvantages. This paper demonstrated that the bio-oil yield can be significantly improved by adding alcohols as co-solvents and carrying out the conversion at mild conditions (<250 °C), but at the expense of a reduced bio-oil quality. By adding ethanol, the bio-oil yields obtained (up to ∼60%) were comparable to the yield obtained at severe operating conditions using only water as solvent (54 ± 2% on average), but the quality of the bio-oil was lower. However, the main advantages of the process here described lie in the utilisation of wet microalgae (∼75% moisture) and alcohol concentrations which avoid both drying the microalgae and decreasing the amount of microalgae loaded in the reactor.
Research group: Process Intensification, Simulation and Environment Technology (PI-SET)
Thematic Areas: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0960-8524
Author identifier: n/a; 0000-0001-9502-1207; n/a; n/a; n/a; 0000-0001-9160-5010
Record's date: 2016-05-18
Last page: 410
Journal volume: 214
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2014
First page: 404
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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