Potential of producing high octane additives and hydrogen from biomass-derived oils

Author

Katikaneni, Sai P R ; Idem, Raphael O. ; Bakhshi, N.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. Eng., Saskatchewan Univ., Saskatoon, Sask., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

27 Jul-1 Aug 1997

Firstpage

1773

Abstract

At present, natural gas, petroleum and coal are principal sources of fuels and a large variety of chemicals. These fossil-derived fuels usually contain sulfur and nitrogen compounds which are not desirable due to their release of pollutants such as SO₂, NO_x and carbon dioxide. Hence, there is a strong interest in developing alternative and renewable sources of liquid fuels which are `environmentally friendly´. Wood (or biomass) derived oils are attracting increasing interest in this respect. The major advantages of using biomass-derived oils are that they are almost sulfur and nitrogen free and also are carbon dioxide neutral. In this paper, the potential of producing high octane additives and hydrogen from biomass-derived oils is discussed by the authors

Keywords

bioenergy conversion; fuel; hydrogen economy; CO₂; NO; SO₂; biomass-derived oils; high-octane additives production; hydrogen production; liquid fuels; renewable energy resources; wood-derived oils; Additives; Carbon dioxide; Chemicals; Fuels; Hydrogen; Natural gas; Nitrogen; Oils; Petroleum; Pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1997. IECEC-97., Proceedings of the 32nd Intersociety

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4515-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECEC.1997.656691

Filename

656691