Autor según el artículo: M.P. Caporgno; J. Pruvost; J. Legrand; O. Lepine; M. Tazerout; C. Bengoa

Departamento: Enginyeria Química

Autor/es de la URV: CAPORGNO, MARTIN PABLO; J. Pruvost; J. Legrand; O. Lepine; M. Tazerout; BENGOA, CHRISTOPHE JOSÉ

Palabras clave: Hydrothermal liquefaction Co-solvents

Resumen: 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.

Grupo de investigación: Process Intensification, Simulation and Environment Technology (PI-SET)

Áreas temáticas: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 0960-8524

Identificador del autor: n/a; 0000-0001-9502-1207; n/a; n/a; n/a; 0000-0001-9160-5010

Fecha de alta del registro: 2016-05-18

Página final: 410

Volumen de revista: 214

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852416306198?via%3Dihub

DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.123

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2014

Página inicial: 404

Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article