公开(公告)号：WO2020069073A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-02

申请号：PCT/US2019/053084

申请日：2019-09-26

Applicant: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Inventor： TIMKO, Michael T. ,  TOMPSETT, Geoffrey A. ,  MAAG, Alex R.

IPC: C10G1/02 ,  C10L5/42 ,  C10L5/44

Abstract: Catalyst composition and parameters for catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass to bio-oil fuels target municipal solid waste (MSW) rather than lignin rich plant waste typically sought for bio-oil production. An HTL (Hydrothermal Liquefaction) reactor generates bio-fuel from municipal solid waste (MSW), including receiving, in the HTL reactor, non-lignin based waste from a municipal processing stream, and adding a solvent for extracting sugars from green waste components of the municipal processing stream. The reactor extracts a liquid from the received waste, and converts water soluble products in the liquid into oil soluble products via C-C (carbon-to-carbon) coupling reactions. A catalyst added to the resulting aqueous stream recovers a beneficial oil product, and is optimized by tuning acid and base sites on the solid catalyst.