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Volume 8, Issue 5 (Suppl)

J Bioremediat Biodegrad, an open access journal

ISSN: 2155-6199

Biofuels Congress 2017

September 05-06, 2017

September 05-06, 2017 | London, UK

Biofuels and Bioenergy

World Congress on

Synthesis of highly hydrothermally stable catalysts for the conversion of castor oil into bio-aviation

fuel

Siyang Liu, Qingxin Guan, Wei Li

Nankai University, China

ossil fuels are becoming exhausted and new alternative fuels need to be found to meet the increasing energy demand.

Biofuels have emerged as one of the most strategically important sustainable fuel sources and an increasing number of

developed and developing countries found biofuels as a key to reducing reliance on foreign oil, lowering GHG emissions

and meeting rural development goals. Therefore, raw materials such as animal fats, waste greases, edible oil and inedible oil

have been studied for preparing aviation fuel through hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) technology [1-5]. In this study, Highly

hydrothermally stable HDO catalysts Ni–Mo/MCM-41–TiO

have been investigated for overcoming the detrimental effect of

water on the catalyst in the process of hydrotreating castor oil with high oxygen content (15 wt%). Characterization by XRD,

XPS, FT-IR and activity test results showed that modified MCM-41 (Ti–O–Si) improved the water resistance of the catalyst

and prevented loss of the active component as given in Fig. 1. With increasing reaction time, the water that is produced by the

HDO reaction can gradually impact on MCM-41, as shown in Fig. 1(c). It can be seen that the conversion begins to decrease

at 40 h and the XRD characterization also proved that the crystallization peaks of NiO and Ni have disappeared after 40 h on

NiMo/MCM-41, while the NiO and Ni peaks still exist for NiMo/MCM-41–TiO

(10 wt%) after 200 h (see Fig. 1(d)). This

phenomenon suggests the loss of the active component in the dehydration process over a long time. Therefore, NiMo/MCM-

41–TiO

was synthesized for enhanced water resistance and weak interaction between metal and carrier.

(Wei Li)

J Bioremediat Biodegrad 2017, 8:5(Suppl)

DOI: 10.4172/2155-6199-C1-009