Conversion of waste cooking oil to jet biofuel with nickel-based mesoporous zeolite Y catalyst. (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Li, Tao; Cheng, Jun; Huang, Rui; Zhou, Junhu; Cen, Kefa
• Is Part Of: Bioresource technology. Volume 197(2015)
• Page Start: 289
• Page End: 294
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: BET Brunauer–Emmett–Teller -- BJH Barrett–Joyner–Halenda -- FAME fatty acid methyl ester -- TPD temperature programmed desorption of ammonia -- GC–MS gas chromatography–mass spectrometer; Mesoporous zeolite Y -- Waste cooking oil -- Reaction pathway; Biomass -- Periodicals; Biomass energy -- Periodicals; Bioremediation -- Periodicals; Agricultural wastes -- Periodicals; Factory and trade waste -- Periodicals; Organic wastes -- Periodicals; Bioénergie -- Périodiques; Déchets agricoles -- Périodiques; Déchets industriels -- Périodiques; Déchets organiques -- Périodiques; Déchets (Combustible) -- Périodiques; 662.88
• DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.08.115
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0960-8524

Abstract

Highlights: Mesoporous zeolite Y was used to convert waste cooking oils to jet biofuel. Mesoporous zeolite Y exhibited high alkane and low aromatic hydrocarbon selectivity. Reaction pathway for transforming waste cooking oil to jet biofuel was proposed. Abstract: Three types of zeolites (Meso-Y, SAPO-34, and HY) loaded with nickel were used to convert waste cooking oil to jet biofuel. Mesoporous zeolite Y exhibited a high jet range alkane selectivity of 53% and a proper jet range aromatic hydrocarbon selectivity of 13.4% in liquid fuel products. Reaction temperature was optimized to produce quality jet biofuel. Zeolite Meso-Y exhibited a high jet range alkane yield of 40.5% and a low jet range aromatic hydrocarbon yield of 11.3% from waste cooking oil at 400 °C. The reaction pathway for converting waste cooking oil to jet biofuel was proposed. Experimental results showed that waste cooking oil mainly deoxygenated to heptadecane (C17 H36 ) and pentadecane (C15 H30 ) through the decarbonylation pathway for the first 3 h. Long chain alkanes cracked into jet range alkanes (C8 –C16 ). Cycloalkanes and aromatic hydrocarbons were produced through cyclization and dehydrogenation pathways.