生物质转化制备乳酸及其酯类物质研究进展

乳酸是重要的精细化工中间体,在食品、医药、日化及可降解材料等领域具有重要的应用.利用农林废弃物为原料转化制备乳酸,不仅能够充分利用生物质资源,更能缓解乳酸供需矛盾,对推动碳减排及绿色发展具有重要意义.分别从微生物发酵法和化学催化法对生物质转化制备乳酸(酯)的最新研究进展进行了综述,并对当前阶段制约乳酸生产的各方面因素进行了分析总结,最后全面比较了这两种方法的优缺点,展望了生物质转化制备乳酸潜在研究方向、存在的机遇和面临的挑战.     

Techno-economical assessment of coal and biomass gasification-based hydrogen production supply chain system

Hydrogen is an energy carrier that represents a possible clean fuel of the future. This paper assesses the effect of biomass co-firing on gasification based hydrogen production supply chain, with carbon dioxide capture and storage, from technical, economical and environmental point of view. Several cases consisting of various feedstocks to the gasification reactor are investigated (coal only and coal in mixture with sawdust or wheat straw). Considered plant concepts generate between 330 and 460 MW hydrogen of 99.99% (vol.) purity.     

Status and Perspectives of Biomass Use for Industrial Process Heat for Industrialized Countries

Full reduction of greenhouse gas emissions involves transforming the industrial process heat supply. The status and future perspectives of biomass for industrial heat mainly based on the German example are reviewed, and a more differentiated consideration by a newly introduced method is attempted. The article focuses on temperature levels above 200 °C combined with an individual examination of most energy-consuming industrial subsectors according to the feasibility of biomass utilization. Numerous studies conclude that biomass use will shift substantially from residential to industrial heat. Results indicate that biomass could play a bigger role especially for cement and clinker production, but they indicate also a significant need for further research and development to take final conclusions.     

Hydrogen from biomass-production by steam reforming of biomass pyrolysis oil

Thermo-conversion of biomass is one of the leading near-term options for renewable production of hydrogen and has the potential to provide a significant fraction of transportation fuel required in the future. We propose a two-step process that starts with fast pyrolysis of biomass, which generates high yields of a liquid product, bio-oil, followed by catalytic steam reforming of bio-oil to produce hydrogen. A major advantage of such a concept results from the fact that bio-oil is much easier and less expensive to transport than either biomass or hydrogen. Therefore, the processing of biomass and the production of hydrogen can be performed at separate locations, optimized with respect to feedstock supply and to hydrogen distribution infrastructure. This approach makes the process very well suited for both centralized and distributed hydrogen production. This work demonstrates reforming of bio-oil in a bench-scale fluidized bed system and provides hydrogen yields obtained using several commercial and custom-made catalysts.     

离子液体介质中纤维素资源转化研究进展

木质纤维素是地球上最丰富的可再生有机碳资源,将其高效转化为化学品或燃料,对缓解全球能源危机和解决环境污染问题具有重要意义。离子液体因对木质纤维素具有独特的溶解性能,近年来作为新型溶剂在生物质转化中获得广泛应用。综述了离子液体用于木质纤维素预处理及化学转化的最新研究进展,包括纤维素溶解、木质纤维素组分分离、纤维素水解制葡萄糖、六碳糖及纤维素催化转化制5-羟甲基糠醛以及碳水化合物的其他转化途径等,同时对基于离子液体平台的生物质转化技术存在的挑战、未来发展趋势及工业化前景进行了展望。     

Hydrogen production by biomass gasification in supercritical water: A systematic experimental and analytical study

Hydrogen production from biomass gasification in supercritical water is a new technology, which was developed in last two decades. Biomass energy of low quality can be converted to hydrogen energy of high quality by supercritical water gasification. Particularly, supercritical water gasification is an elegant way of wet biomass utilization. Up to now, many important progresses have been made in supercritical water gasification technology by the studies of researchers around the world. Since 1997, supercritical water gasification, which include reaction system, rule of biomass gasification and theory, have been studied in State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering of Xi’an Jiaotong University. In this paper, we summarize the results from systematic experimental and analytical study on biomass gasification in supercritical water in our laboratory. Also, the development status and future prospect on supercritical water gasification is evaluated.     

Photobioreactors for microalgal growth and oil production with Nannochloropsis salina: From lab-scale experiments to large-scale design

This paper reports new experimental data of microalgae growth and lipid production under autotrophic conditions for the species Nannochloropsis salina. The effect of relevant operating variables is addressed and discussed, and some suggestions to better understand the process behavior are given with respect to lipid content maximization, carbon dioxide and nitrogen supply, and illumination conditions. The data obtained are finalized to the design of an environmentally and economically sustainable photobioreactor in view of achieving industrial photosynthetic biomass and natural oil production from large scale microalgae cultivation.     

Optimization of pre-treatment selection for the use of woody waste in co-combustion plants

This work is focused on the use of biomass waste to feed already existing coal combustion plants as a part of paving the way toward the reduction of the environmental impact. The biomass waste supply chain optimization is critical to conceive long-term viable projects and deal with the biomass heterogeneous nature and drawbacks to be used with coal, i.e. principally high moisture content and low bulk density. This paper studies biomass transportation, storage and change of properties (moisture content and hence dry matter, energy density and bulk density) through the use of different pre-treatments: (i) torrefaction, (ii) torrefaction combined with pelletization, (iii) pelletization, (iv) fast pyrolysis and (v) fast pyrolysis combined with char grinding, which produce a range of very different pre-treated biomass. The optimization problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear program (MILP) that evaluates the net present value and the environmental impact through a life cycle assessment (LCA). The results propose location–allocation decision together with the selection/capacity of pre-treatment technologies for each scenario. The scenarios contemplate different biomass characteristics, availability and distribution for a supply chain case study located in Spain: forest and agricultural woody residues used to replace at least 10% of the total thermal inlet power provided by coal in the existing network of thermal plants.     

Gasification and co-gasification of biomass wastes: Effect of the biomass origin and the gasifier operating conditions

Air gasification of different biomass fuels, including forestry (pinus pinaster pruning) and agricultural (grapevine and olive tree pruning) wastes as well as industry wastes (sawdust and marc of grape), has been carried out in a circulating flow gasifier in order to evaluate the potential of using these types of biomass in the same equipment, thus providing higher operation flexibility and minimizing the effect of seasonal fuel supply variations. The potential of using biomass as an additional supporting fuel in coal fuelled power plants has also been evaluated through tests involving mixtures of biomass and coal–coke, the coke being a typical waste of oil companies. The effect of the main gasifier operating conditions, such as the relative biomass/air ratio and the reaction temperature, has been analysed to establish the conditions allowing higher gasification efficiency, carbon conversion and/or fuel constituents (CO, H₂ and CH₄) concentration and production. Results of the work encourage the combined use of the different biomass fuels without significant modifications in the installation, although agricultural wastes (grapevine and olive pruning) could to lead to more efficient gasification processes. These latter wastes appear as interesting fuels to generate a producer gas to be used in internal combustion engines or gas turbines (high gasification efficiency and gas yield), while sawdust could be a very adequate fuel to produce a H₂-rich gas (with interest for fuel cells) due to its highest reactivity. The influence of the reaction temperature on the gasification characteristics was not as significant as that of the biomass/air ratio, although the H₂ concentration increased with increasing temperature.     

生物质协同流程工业节能、降污、减碳路径思考

流程工业的低碳/零碳/负碳转型,需从节能、降污、减碳出发,根本上要在能源和原料供给侧摆脱传统化石能源的束缚。风电、光电、水电等为未来社会提供源源不断的可再生能源,但其不具备资源属性,而生物质兼具能源和资源属性,是未来替代化石燃料和原料的重要载体。本文指出,当前生物质转化主要集中在能源、材料、化学品等领域,以生物甲烷、乙醇、航煤等为代表的生物质能源取得了阶段性成果。将生物质转化技术与流程工业耦合,是当下流程工业低碳转型的重要手段,也是实现未来零碳/负碳目标的根本性措施。本文从生物质气化热电联用、生物质气化与燃煤耦合发电、水泥工业生物质替代燃料等案例出发,简要阐述了生物质转化与流程工业耦合面临的挑战,以及未来亟需发展的可再生能源为主的流程再造新理论和前沿颠覆性技术。     

Modelling methods for co-fired pulverised fuel furnaces

Co-firing of biomass and coal can be beneficial in reducing the carbon footprint of energy production. Accurate modelling of co-fired furnaces is essential to discover potential problems that may occur during biomass firing and to mitigate potential negative effects of biomass fuels, including lower efficiency due to lower burnout and NOx formation issues. Existing coal combustion models should be modified to increase reliability of predictions for biomass, including factors such as increased drag due to non-spherical particle sizes and accounting for organic compounds and the effects they have on NOx emission. Detailed biomass co-firing models have been developed and tested for a range of biomass fuels and show promising results.     

生物质基合成气制低碳醇模拟研究

以生物质基合成气制低碳醇为研究对象,使用流程模拟软件Aspen建立模型,讨论醇产物分布、过程水含量、碳的转化形式和CO2减排、产焦以及工艺的质量和能量平衡,并与文献进行对比。模拟计算结果表明：建立的模型能与文献数据很好的吻合;对水含量、碳的转化形式和产焦分析可提高生物质的利用,减少水耗、能耗和CO2的排放,从而提高工艺的经济性;工艺的质量和能量分析,为降低能耗和减少三废排放提供理论依据。     

Analysis of Methanol Production from Biomass Gasification

A biomass‐based methanol production process was investigated. The process consists of a biomass gasifier, steam reformer, and methanol synthesis reactor as the main units. Reactors were simulated by applying the kinetic models previously developed and the process was analyzed based on the simulation results. The key parameters, the equivalence ratio in biomass gasification, the temperature in steam reforming, and the recycle of hydrogen in methanol synthesis were identified. These parameters affect the methanol production. The process analysis indicates that the optimal combinations of the parameters can greatly enhance the methanol production and the thermodynamic efficiency. Finally, the elemental analysis for carbon and hydrogen along the process was carried out.     

Recent advances in the catalytic pyrolysis of biomass

Biomass is considered as a renewable and alternative resource for the production of fuels and chemicals, since it is the only carbon and hydrogen containing resource that we can find in the world except for fossil resources, capable of being converted to hydrocarbons. The pyrolytic liquefaction of biomass is a promising way to convert biomass to useful products. This paper briefly surveys the present status of the direct catalytic pyrolysis for the liquefaction of biomass. The direct use of catalysts could decrease the pyrolysis temperature, increase the conversion of biomass and the yield of bio-oil, and change the distribution of the pyrolytic liquid products then improve the quality of the bio-oil obtained. The fact that biomass is in solid state present great challenges for its conversion and for the effective use of catalysts due to the bad heat transfer characteristics and bad mass transfer properties. These barriers appeal for the development of a new catalyst and new catalytic process as well as the integration of both. Process design and process intensification are of significant importance in the catalytic conversion of biomass.     

Biomass combustion in fluidized bed boilers: Potential problems and remedies

Due to increasing environmental concerns especially related with the use of fossil fuels, new solutions to limit the greenhouse gas effect are continuously sought. Among the available alternative energy sources, including hydro, solar, wind etc. to mitigate greenhouse emissions, biomass is the only carbon-based sustainable option. On one hand, the versatile nature of biomass enables it to be utilized in all parts of the world, and on the other, this diversity makes biomass a complex and difficult fuel. Especially the high percentages of alkali (potassium) and chlorine, together with high ash content, in some brands of biomass prove to be a major source of concern. However, mechanisms leading to corrosion and high dust emissions problems have been identified and a range of possible solutions is already available. Among the technologies that can be used for biomass combustion, fluidized beds are emerging as the best due to their flexibility and high efficiency. Although agglomeration problems associated with fluidized bed combustors for certain herbaceous biofuels is still a major issue, however, but successful and applicable/implementable solutions have been reported. This review article presents the major issues concerned with biomass combustion with special reference to the small scale fluidized bed systems (small to pilot scale). Problems have been identified, mechanisms explained and solutions have been indicated. In conclusion, a range of concerns including environmental, economical and technical associated with biomass exist, but none of these issues represent an insurmountable obstacle for this sustainable energy source.     

超临界水中湿生物质催化气化制氢研究评述

超临界水中湿生物质催化气化制氢 ,将能量密度小但可再生的生物质能转变为高能密度且既可贮存又可运输的清洁能源氢能 ,具有全程良性循环的特征 ,因此具有良好的经济前景和环保优势 .本文对国内外超临界水中生物质催化气化及相关研究进展进行了综合评述 ,并分析了超临界水环境中生物质催化气化制取富氢气体的主要影响因素 ,提出进一步研究的方向     

Biodiesel Production: Effects of the Feeding Process on Biomass and Lipid Productivity

Large‐scale biomass production and sewage refining for use in landscaping by employing Chlorella vulgaris were investigated. The effects of the concentrations of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus as nutrients in the process were optimized by central composite design. In general, the results revealed that higher amounts of biomass can be obtained by varying the feed concentration; both the N and P concentrations have an effective role in improving the biomass dry weight. The amount of lipid productivity varied from 12 % to 55 %, and one of the photobioreactors tested showed the best conditions for lipid productivity. Also, this process can decrease the greenhouse gas emissions in wastewater treatment.     

Energy production from biomass pyrolysis: a new coefficient of pyrolytic valorisation

The use of renewable energy sources is becoming increasingly necessary to diminish the greenhouse effect gases production. Biomass is the most common form of renewable energy, widely used in the third world. Pyrolysis, which corresponds to the thermal decomposition of biomass under the action of heat and without any oxidant, is particularly well-adapted to the valorisation of lignocellulosic products such as wood or straw. The BIOCARB programme of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), to which the Groupe de Recherche sur l'Environnement et la Chimie Atmosphérique (GRECA) contributes, aims to produce carburant from the gasification of biomass. This fuel can be either pure hydrogen, or gasoil produced by the Fischer-Tropsch process after the pyrolysis and syngas production. It is absolutely necessary to control the different parameters of the pyrolysis (gas composition, formation of tars) to maximise the production of hydrogen or syngas. The new coefficient of pyrolytic valorisation presented here helps to meet this requirement. This work presents also experiments on the pyrolysis of straw and fescue in a 550-650 °C temperature range with different residence times, on which was based our investigation.     

The Role of Electrochemistry in Future Dynamic Bio‐Refineries: A Focus on (Non‐)Kolbe Electrolysis

The vision of a circular economy with closed carbon dioxide cycles is inevitably connected to a change of raw materials. Non‐edible biomass is an attractive carbon source for chemical industry. Brought together with renewable energy, the electrocatalytic transformation of biomass‐based feedstocks enables to directly integrate renewable electrical energy into chemical value chains. Considering the major role of natural carboxylic acids, the well‐known Kolbe and non‐Kolbe electrolysis attract increasing interest as versatile tools to valorize renewable feedstocks providing access to both biofuels and bulk or fine chemicals. They allow via decarboxylation access either to the corresponding dimerization product or the terminal alkene. Here, the electrochemical valorization of biomass is discussed with special emphasis on the possible role of (non‐)Kolbe electrolysis in a future electrified biorefinery.