title: From lignin to cycloparaffins and aromatics: directional synthesis of jet and diesel fuel range biofuels using biomass.
abstract: The continual growth in commercial aviation fuels and more strict environmental legislations have led to immense interest in developing green aviation fuels from biomass. This paper demonstrated a controllable transformation of lignin into jet and diesel fuel range hydrocarbons, involving directional production of C8-C15 aromatics by the catalytic depolymerization of lignin into C6-C8 low carbon aromatic monomers coupled with the alkylation of aromatics, and the directional production of C8-C15 cycloparaffins by the hydrogenation of aromatics. The key step, the production of the desired C8-C15 aromatics with the selectivity up to 94.3%, was achieved by the low temperature alkylation reactions of the lignin-derived monomers using ionic liquid. The synthetic biofuels basically met the main technical requirements of conventional jet fuels. The transformation potentially provides a useful way for the development of cycloparaffinic and aromatic components in jet fuels using renewable lignocellulose biomass.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Peiyan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Jicong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Yajing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Peiwen
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Junxu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, PR China.
authors.forename: Tiejun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China. Electronic address: liqx@ustc.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Quanxin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000473:Alkanes / Q000737:chemistry; D000478:Alkylation; D056804:Biofuels; D018533:Biomass; D002384:Catalysis; D003516:Cycloparaffins / Q000737:chemistry*; D005742:Gasoline; D006865:Hydrogenation; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry; D008031:Lignin / Q000737:chemistry*; D058105:Polymerization; D059027:Recycling; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000473:Alkanes; D056804:Biofuels; D003516:Cycloparaffins; D005742:Gasoline; D052578:Ionic Liquids; D008031:Lignin
keywords: Alkylation; Bio-jet fuels; C8–C15 aromatics; C8–C15 cycloparaffins; Lignin