Castor bean cake residues upgrading towards high added value products via fast catalytic pyrolysis

Konstantinos G. Kalogiannis; Stylianos D. Stefanidis; Chrysoula M. Michailof; Angelos A. Lappas

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2016.07.001

Castor bean cake residues upgrading towards high added value products via fast catalytic pyrolysis

Konstantinos G. Kalogiannis^*
, Stylianos D. Stefanidis
, Chrysoula M. Michailof
, Angelos A. Lappas

^*Corresponding author for this work

Centre for Research & Technology Hellas

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Abstract

Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing the seeds of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis). Its production leads to high volumes of solid residues, the castor bean cakes. The main objective of this study was to investigate the potential of these castor bean cakes as a valuable source for production of high added value products such as bio-fuels and renewable chemicals. The upgrading of the castor bean cakes was attempted via thermochemical processes; specifically fast thermal and catalytic pyrolysis. Initially thermal pyrolysis of two different castor cakes and one type of castor stalks took place in a fixed bed fast pyrolysis reactor. The best feed was chosen for catalytic pyrolysis testing where industrially available microporous and one mesoporous catalyst were studied. Mass balances and products characterization via elemental analysis and two dimensional gas chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCxGC-TOFMS) in the case of the liquid products allowed for the estimation of the catalytic effect in each case.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	405-415
Number of pages	11
Journal	Biomass and Bioenergy
Volume	95
Early online date	7 Jul 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2016.07.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016

Funding

The authors wish to acknowledge funding of this research from the project JONAΗ-FUEL, “CASTOR bean (JONAH seed) cultivation in central Macedonia, Greece and industrial exploitation of its derivatives towards BIOFUELs’ production”, agreement no. ISR_3176, which is co-funded by Greece and the European Regional Development Fund, under OPCE II and within the program ‘Bilateral R&D cooperation between Greece and Israel 2013–2015’.

Keywords

Biomass pyrolysis
Castor bean cake
Catalytic upgrading
GCxGC-ToFMS
ZSM-5

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