公开(公告)号：WO2022216721A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-13

申请号：PCT/US2022/023498

申请日：2022-04-05

Applicant: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Inventor： TIMKO, Michael T. ,  TOMPSETT, Geoffrey A. ,  ZAKER, Azadeh

IPC: C10G29/20 ,  C10G29/22 ,  C10G31/00 ,  C10G11/05

Abstract: Methods are described herein for upgrading ad refining hydrocarbons, and producing at least one petrochemical product, the method including: preparing a reaction mixture by adding at least two of: a quantity of bioethanol, a quantity of hydrocarbon, and a quantity of water to a reactor containment; combining the reaction mixture with a quantity of catalyst in the reactor containment; applying reaction conditions to the reactor containment thereby generating supercritical conditions for the reaction mixture and obtaining a product mixture; and extracting at least one petrochemical product from the product mixture.

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.