Aplicação de micropirólise/catalítica no estudo da conversão térmica de plantas aquáticas para a obtenção de biocombustível de 2ª geração

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Lidiane Correia dos Santos
• Orientador(a): Wisniewski Junior, Alberto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Química
• Palavras-chave em Português: Química analítica; Análise cromatográfica; Catálise; Plantas aquáticas; Biocombustíveis; Zeolitos; Pirólise; Micropirólise; Eichornia azurea; Eichornia crassipes; Bio-óleo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Aquatic plants; Biomass energy; Catalysis; Analytical chemistry; Chromatographic analysis; Zeolites; Bio-oil
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::QUIMICA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6114

The search for alternatives to the fossil oil and concern about environmental pollution has increasingly supported the importance of biofuels. The production of bio-oil from aquatic plants (water hyacinth) has become as interesting alternative due to its rapid growth rate, robust nature and unrelated to the food chain. The present work aimed to study the application of conventional and catalytic pyrolysis to convert aquatic plants like Eichhornia crassipes (EC) and Eichhornia azurea (EA) in bio-oil, employing Ferrierite and Y zeolite as catalysts. These plants were obtained in Aracaju-SE and Itabaiana-SE, respectively. The micropyrolys is were performed at three temperatures (400, 500 and 600 °C). The catalytic micropyrolysis using Ferrierite and Y zeolite was performed in the same condition applying 1 and 5% of catalysts w/w. The bio-oils solutions obtained were characterized by GC/MS and GC-FID. The micropyrolysis performed in the absence of catalyst showed similar chromatographic profiles to the biomasses tested, with the composition of bio-oils showing phenolic compounds, acids and alcohols. With Ferrierite as catalyst at 5% in the micropyrolysis and performing a study from the total area of the obtained chromatograms was observed the higher yield by GC-FID caused by the increased formation of small molecular mass compounds from biomasses. However, when used 1% of the same catalyst to EC was not observed a very significant difference in relation with no catalyst pyrolysis. To the EA in this condition was observed a significant yield reduction when performed at 500 °C. When used Y catalyst for EA pyrolysis a smaller yield was observed at all studied temperatures that shows a significantly inhibited formation of compounds derived from these lignocelullosic biomasses. However for the EC catalytic pyrolysis with 5% of Y catalyst at 500 °C we observed the largest decrease in the yield from the chromatograms area. The bio-oils characterization gave compounds identified belong to the following classes: alcohol, phenol, and sugar acids. The bio-oils from catalytic pyrolysis of EC and EA biomass showed a high content of phenolic compounds and acidic compounds.