Issue 39, 2023, Issue in Progress

The construction of a biomass component interaction model based on research into the hydrothermal liquefaction of sewage sludge

Abstract

Sewage sludge (SS), a hazardous solid waste with a high water and pollutant content, should be disposed of correctly. Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) shows tremendous potential to treat organic matter with substantial water content like SS. In this paper, we examined the impact of key factors on the characteristics and yield of bio-oil during HTL of SS. We clarified the impacts of each component on the yield through model compounds based on that and constructed a component additivity model for forecasting the bio-oil yield from biomass with complex component composition. In the reactions of the model compounds, cellulose showed synergistic interaction with protein and alkali lignin in the bio-oil yield but lipids showed antagonistic effects with protein and alkaline lignin. The co-HTL results of these binary mixtures improved our model and further clarified the reaction mechanism of HTL of SS.

Graphical abstract: The construction of a biomass component interaction model based on research into the hydrothermal liquefaction of sewage sludge

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Jun 2023
Accepted
17 Aug 2023
First published
11 Sep 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2023,13, 27116-27124

The construction of a biomass component interaction model based on research into the hydrothermal liquefaction of sewage sludge

L. Zhao, L. Xie, L. Gou, L. Dai and Y. Wang, RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 27116 DOI: 10.1039/D3RA03809B

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