Catalytic pyrolysis of coconut oil with Ni/SBA-15 for the production of bio jet fuel
Aldo Medeiros, Karoline de Sousa Castro, Mayara Lopes Gundim de Macêdo, Aruzza Mabel de Morais Araújo, Djalma Ribeiro da Silva, Amanda Duarte Gondim
Abstract
energy as the conversion progressed to a certain point. Catalytic pyrolysis experiments were performed in a one-stage tubular reactor at 500 °C with a catalyst loading of 10 wt% on the basis of mass of oil. The catalyst with 5% Ni showed greater presence of hydrocarbons and greater formation of water, indicating that the deoxygenation process occurred through decarbonylation. With this, the present study was successful in the development of methodologies for obtaining hydrocarbons with a composition close to that of drop-in fuels, compared to the process carried out with vegetable oil in the absence of catalysts.