Production of high-octane gasoline via hydrodeoxygenation of sorbitol over palladium-based bimetallic catalysts

Eilhann E Kwon; Yong Tae Kim; Hyung Ju Kim; Kun-Yi Andrew Lin; Ki-Hyun Kim; Jechan Lee; George W Huber

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.09.007

Production of high-octane gasoline via hydrodeoxygenation of sorbitol over palladium-based bimetallic catalysts

J Environ Manage. 2018 Dec 1:227:329-334. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.09.007. Epub 2018 Sep 7.

Authors

Eilhann E Kwon¹, Yong Tae Kim², Hyung Ju Kim², Kun-Yi Andrew Lin³, Ki-Hyun Kim⁴, Jechan Lee⁵, George W Huber⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea.
² Carbon Resources Institute, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Environmental Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Department of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: jlee83@ajou.ac.kr.
⁶ Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: gwhuber@wisc.edu.

PMID: 30199729
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.09.007

Abstract

A methodology for the synthesis of gasoline-range fuels from carbon neutral resources is introduced. Sorbitol, a sugar-based compound, was employed as a raw material because the compound is readily obtained from cellulose. Gasoline-range hydrocarbons were produced via hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) on zirconium phosphate-supported Pd-bimetallic (Pt-Pd, Ru-Pd, Ni-Pd, Fe-Pd, Co-Pd, W-Pd) catalysts. Among the tested catalysts, the bimetallic W-Pd/ZrP catalyst exhibited the highest yield of gasoline products, peaking at ∼70%. However, with the bimetallic Fe-Pd and Co-Pd catalysts, high-octane gasoline products were made (research octane number (RON) of the products was higher than 100). The Fe-Pd catalyst also showed the highest initial activity for the HDO of sorbitol. This study demonstrates that HDO in the Pd-system is a promising option to produce high-quality gasoline-range hydrocarbons from lignocellulosic biomass.

Keywords: Bimetallic catalyst; Biofuels; Biorefinery; Gasoline; Hydrodeoxygenation; Lignocellulosic biomass.

MeSH terms

Catalysis
Gasoline*
Octanes
Palladium*
Sorbitol

Substances

Gasoline
Octanes
Sorbitol
Palladium