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Biomass-derived tars like pyrolysis oils are also complex, largely aromatic feedstocks that require fluidization to improve reforming efficiency.
However, due to the low value associated with heavy aromatic feedstocks, there is an economic incentive to increase their quality if possible.
Fluctuating crude oil prices and changing fuel specifications are some of the driving factors to develop new technologies that could be used to convert polymeric lignin into low molecular weight lignin and or monomeric aromatic feedstocks to assist in the displacement of the current products associated with the conversion of a whole barrel of oil.
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Mixed CaO and HZSM-5 catalyst with the weight ratio of 1 4 increased the aromatic feedstock yield to 35.77 wt.% which was 17% higher than that with HZSM-5 alone.
This study provides interesting perspectives for the production of renewable lignin-based aromatic polymers, demonstrating that an effective chemical modification together with tailored molecular architectures could pave the way for the development of high value-added materials from this underused aromatic feedstock.
Selective oxidation of alkanes (paraffins), alkenes (olefins) and aromatics feedstocks produce oxygenated compounds, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, anhydrides and epoxides, which are important commodities in the petrochemical industry.
It was shown that a paraffinic and an aromatic FCC feedstock produce, respectively, an olefinic or an aromatic gasoline.
In patent literature there are claims that state that this material can be converted into an aromatic petrochemical feedstock by oxidative liquefaction at low temperature.
Extractive distillation is widely used technology for recovering aromatics from different feedstock.
Fig. 4, based on models by Fu et al. and Ma et al., provides an artist impression of molecules such as could be found in an FCC feedstock, depicting larger aromatic structures with alkyl side-chains, as well as sulfur and nitrogen impurities (oxygen would be present in similar molecules), while Fig. 5a illustrates the complexity of a typical VGO feedstock with a GC × GC plot.
The modification of lignin-derived compounds such as technical lignins, which are highly aromatic and therefore valuable as renewable feedstocks for the biobased product industry, is still a challenging and multidisciplinary task.
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