Production of clean and renewable energy and chemicals from biomass and oilsands bitumen

利用生物质和油砂沥青生产清洁和可再生能源和化学品

• 批准号: 36350-2012
• 负责人: Ng, Flora
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=509918
• 关键词: Production; clean; renewable; energy; chemicals

This proposal is focused on the development of renewable energy and chemicals from biomass and a greener process to upgrade the Canadian bitumen and heavy oil resources . Utilization of biomass resources for the production of energy and chemicals will reduce the emission of green house gases and the disastrous effects of global warming. Biomass resources contain a large amount of oxygen containing compounds such as in the ethanol, butanol, fats, waste cooking oil and animal fats and bio-oils. In order to utilize the biomass derived feedstocks, the oxygen functional groups should be removed to increase the energy density of the biomass derived fuel and also to reduce the problems with instability on storage and corrosion issues .However, efficient processes for the selective removal of the oxygen and reformation of the molecules to those resembling the current gasoline and diesel compounds are lacking. To produce the "green" gasoline or diesel derived bioresources, novel catalysts and processes are required. Our proposed research will develop novel catalysts, using state of the art preparation and characterization techniques, for the removal of the oxygen functional group and to transform the bioresources to green gasoline, diesel and chemicals. Catalytic distillation, a more energy efficient reactor technology, will be used for process development if applicable. At present, biomass can only supply a small portion of the global energy demand. Therefore utilization of bitumen and heavy oil will be required. We propose to develop a novel bitumen upgrading scheme which utilizes the "dirty water" and the coke associated with bitumen extraction and upgrading to provide the hydrogen to upgrade the bitumen to a high quality oil and at the same time, the " dirty water" is utilized to provide the hydrogen and the excess "dirty" water is cleaned up. This novel process will significantly reduce the tailings ponds and the environmental footprint from the development of the oilsands bitumen.

该提案的重点是利用生物质开发可再生能源和化学品，以及升级加拿大沥青和重油资源的绿色工艺。利用生物质资源生产能源和化学品将减少温室气体的排放和全球变暖的灾难性影响。生物质资源中含有大量的含氧化合物，如乙醇、丁醇、脂肪、废弃食用油以及动物脂肪和生物油。为了利用生物质衍生原料，应去除氧官能团以增加生物质衍生燃料的能量密度，并减少储存不稳定和腐蚀问题。然而，用于选择性去除氧官能团的有效方法缺乏氧气以及分子重整为类似于当前汽油和柴油化合物的分子。为了生产“绿色”汽油或柴油衍生的生物资源，需要新型催化剂和工艺。我们提出的研究将利用最先进的制备和表征技术开发新型催化剂，用于去除氧官能团并将生物资源转化为绿色汽油、柴油和化学品。 如果适用，催化蒸馏是一种更节能的反应器技术，将用于工艺开发。目前，生物质只能满足全球能源需求的一小部分。因此需要利用沥青和重油。 我们建议开发一种新颖的沥青提质方案，利用“脏水”和与沥青提取和提质相关的焦炭来提供氢气，将沥青提质为高质量的油，同时“脏水”被用于提供氢气，多余的“脏”水被清理干净。这种新颖的工艺将显着减少尾矿池和油砂沥青开发的环境足迹。