Technologies for the Valorization of Alternative Fossil and Renewable Resources

替代化石和可再生资源的增值技术

• 批准号: RGPIN-2014-04572
• 负责人: Berruti, Franco
• 金额: $ 3.21万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=645324
• 关键词: Technologies; Valorization; Alternative; Fossil; Renewable

The Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources (ICFAR) has been established at Western University in 2009 to accommodate our expanding research activities dealing with the thermal cracking and upgrading of low value fossil resources (heavy oils extracted from the oil sands) and renewables (residual biomasses, organic wastes and selected crops) into upgraded products, using advanced chemical reactor technologies. The proposed Discovery grant builds upon years of experience in thermal cracking of heavy oils and of residual biomass materials using conventional gas-solid fluidized bed reactors as well as more recent technologies, including mechanically fluidized reactors. Thermal cracking is an intrinsically non-selective process and generates hundreds of chemical species. The main objective of the proposed Discovery grant is to improve the selectivity and enhance the quality and value of the condensable and solid products by a synergistic combination and integration of advanced reactor and separation technologies. The research will aim at the conversion of low value, or negative value resources (residues, organic waste materials, sludges and heavy hydrocarbons) into (a) high value intermediates that can be more readily upgraded and integrated with petroleum fuel streams, and, more importantly, (b) into high value targeted "non-fuel" chemical products, such as pharmaceuticals, flavors, cosmetics, specialty and fine chemicals. The objective will be achieved by tackling projects designed to address selectivity and quality enhancement (i) during the reactions, (ii) during the collection of the primary products, as well as (iii) by post-processing the primary products. The projects will include: catalytic pyrolysis in, or following, a bubbling fluidized bed integrated with a fractional condensation train; non-catalytic batch pyrolysis in a mechanically fluidized reactor operating at progressively increasing temperatures integrated with fractional condensation trains; valorization of liquid fractions by advanced extraction techniques and catalytic transformation processes and of the solid fractions by activation, granulation, or utilization for the production of advanced materials; novel approaches to integration of production and valorization using supercritical fluids for both reaction and fractionation. The research will lead to several beneficial outcomes: reduction of pollution created by residues and wastes, diversion from landfills, valorization of agricultural and forestry co-products, net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and integration of renewables into conventional fossil fuels and chemicals. The environmentally friendly production of high quality product from low quality, residual or waste resources will provide economic, environmental and social benefits to all members of society.

替代资源化学品和燃料研究所 (ICFAR) 于 2009 年在西部大学成立，以适应我们不断扩大的研究活动，涉及低价值化石资源（从油砂中提取的重油）和可再生能源（利用先进的化学反应器技术，将残余生物质、有机废物和选定的作物）转化为升级产品。 拟议的发现拨款建立在使用传统气固流化床反应器以及包括机械流化反应器在内的最新技术对重油和残余生物质材料进行热裂解的多年经验的基础上。 热裂解本质上是一种非选择性过程，会产生数百种化学物质。拟议的发现拨款的主要目标是通过先进反应器和分离技术的协同组合和集成来提高可冷凝和固体产品的选择性并提高质量和价值。 该研究旨在将低价值或负价值资源（残渣、有机废料、污泥和重碳氢化合物）转化为（a）高价值中间体，可以更容易地升级并与石油燃料流整合，以及重要的是，(b) 进入高价值目标“非燃料”化学产品，例如药品、香料、化妆品、特种化学品和精细化学品。该目标将通过解决旨在解决选择性和质量提高问题的项目来实现（i）反应期间，（ii）初级产品收集期间，以及（iii）初级产品后处理。这些项目将包括：在与分级冷凝装置集成的鼓泡流化床中或之后进行催化热解；机械流化反应器中的非催化间歇式热解，在逐渐升高的温度下与分级冷凝系统相结合；通过先进的提取技术和催化转化工艺对液体馏分进行增值，通过活化、造粒或用于生产先进材料来对固体馏分进行增值；使用超临界流体进行反应和分馏来整合生产和增值的新方法。该研究将带来一些有益的成果：减少残留物和废物造成的污染、从垃圾填埋场转移、农业和林业副产品的增值、温室气体排放的净减少以及将可再生能源融入传统化石燃料和化学品。用低质量、残留或废弃资源环保地生产高质量产品将为所有社会成员带来经济、环境和社会效益。