Pyrolysis of Aesculus chinensis Bunge Seed with Fe2O3/NiO as nanocatalysts for the production of bio-oil material

Yiyang Li; Sabry M Shaheen; Jörg Rinklebe; Nyuk Ling Ma; Yafeng Yang; Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf; Xiangmeng Chen; Wan-Xi Peng

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126012

Pyrolysis of Aesculus chinensis Bunge Seed with Fe₂O₃/NiO as nanocatalysts for the production of bio-oil material

J Hazard Mater. 2021 Aug 15:416:126012. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126012. Epub 2021 May 23.

Authors

Yiyang Li¹, Sabry M Shaheen², Jörg Rinklebe³, Nyuk Ling Ma⁴, Yafeng Yang¹, Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf⁵, Xiangmeng Chen⁶, Wan-Xi Peng⁷

Affiliations

¹ School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
² University of Wuppertal, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Soil, and Groundwater-Management, Pauluskirchstraße 7, 42285 Wuppertal, Germany; King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment, and Arid Land Agriculture, Department of Arid Land Agriculture, 21589 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; University of Kafrelsheikh, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil and Water Sciences, 33516 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt. Electronic address: shaheen@uni-wuppertal.de.
³ University of Wuppertal, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Soil, and Groundwater-Management, Pauluskirchstraße 7, 42285 Wuppertal, Germany; Department of Environment, Energy and Geoinformatics, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: rinklebe@uni-wuppertal.de.
⁴ School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
⁵ School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; Department of Geology Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
⁶ School of Chemical Engineering and Energy, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
⁷ School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China. Electronic address: pengwanxi@163.com.

PMID: 34492887
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126012

Abstract

The rapid thermal cracking technology of biomass can convert biomass into bio-oil and is beneficial for industrial applications. Agricultural and forestry wastes are important parts of China's energy, and their high-grade utilization is useful to solve the problem of energy shortages and environmental pollution. To the best of our knowledge, the impact of nanocatalysts on converting biowastes for bio-oil has not been studied. Consequently, we examined the production of bio-oil by pyrolysis of Aesculus chinensis Bunge Seed (ACBS) using nanocatalysts (Fe₂O₃ and NiO catalysts) for the first time. The pyrolysis products of ACBS include 1-hydroxy-2-propanone (3.97%), acetic acid (5.42%), and furfural (0.66%). These chemical components can be recovered for use as chemical feedstock in the form of bio-oil, thus indicating the potential of ACBS as a feedstock to be converted by pyrolysis to produce value-added bio-oil. The Fe₂O₃ and NiO catalysts enhanced the pyrolysis process, which accelerated the precipitation of gaseous products. The pyrolysis rates of the samples gradually increased at DTG_max, effectively promoting the catalytic cracking of ACBS, which is beneficial to the development and utilization of ACBS to produce high valorization products. Combining ACBS and nanocatalysts can change the development direction of high valorization agricultural and forestry wastes in the future.

Keywords: Bio-oil; Biowastes; Catalytic; Nanomaterials; Pyrolysis.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aesculus*
Biofuels
Biomass
Hot Temperature
Plant Oils
Polyphenols
Pyrolysis*
Seeds

Substances

Bio-Oil
Biofuels
Plant Oils
Polyphenols