Solar-powered biorefinery process development to produce renewable biofuels and bio-carbons from waste biomass
The project mainly focuses on the solar-powered biorefinery process development with aiming to produce renewable biofuels and bio-carbons using waste biomass as raw materials.
Background
Aims and objectives
- Process development to produce high-quality bio carbons from pyrolysis char and biofuels from pyrolysis vapors: Process design, catalyst study, process evaluation. This stage of work was performed at Unit of process, MSE Department. A sustainable, low-carbon-footprint, and high-resource-efficiency process converting biomass to bio-graphite used in batteries and metallurgy has been developed.
- Use solar energy instead of electric energy to power the reaction systems, and carry out corresponding system simulation and calculation. Collaborating work between MSE and EGI departments. Sample preparation ready. Estimated solar power tests will be conducted in December.
Project plan
Applied interdisciplinarity
Applying solar energy source to the biorefinery process development could be good interdisciplinary between Energy and Material Science. Biorefinery process is always energy-based and suitable and efficient renewable energy-utilization on innovative process is also of great significance.
Papers
- Yuming Wen, Tong Han et al. Magnetic bio-activated carbons production using different process parameters for phosphorus removal from artificially prepared phosphorus-rich and domestic wastewater; 2021, Chemosphere 271:129561.
- Hanmin Yang, Tong Han et al. Influence of the Porosity and Acidic Properties of Aluminosilicate Catalysts on Coke Formation during the Catalytic Pyrolysis of Lignin. Submitted to Catalysis Today
KTH collaborations
Energy Technology
Mat󠄄erial Science and Engineering
Duration
September 2020 – September 2022