CAI Wenjing, YAN Hao, FENG Xiang, et al. Product distribution in catalytic cracking of fatty acid methyl esters with different carbon chain lengths[J]. CIESC Journal, 2017, (5): 2057-2065.
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CAI Wenjing, YAN Hao, FENG Xiang, et al. Product distribution in catalytic cracking of fatty acid methyl esters with different carbon chain lengths[J]. CIESC Journal, 2017, (5): 2057-2065.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20161498.
Product distribution in catalytic cracking of fatty acid methyl esters with different carbon chain lengths
Influence of carbon chain length of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) on product distribution in catalytic cracking process was investigated in a fixed-bed microreactor at various temperatures. Octanoic acid methyl ester (OAME)
decanoic acid methyl ester (DAME) and lauric acid methyl ester (LAME) were used as feeds
meanwhile LVR-60 was selected as catalyst. Results showed that with the increase of carbon number of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME)
the conversion of FAME increased. Moreover
the content of CO and CO2 from the deoxygenation of FAME and content of hydrocarbons in the liquid product had similar trends
while the content of oxygen-containing compound (OCC) in liquid product decreased. In addition
raising reaction temperature was beneficial for the conversion of FAME
resulting in more hydrocarbons and lower oxygen-containing compound (OCC) content in liquid product. At lower temperature
CO2 was the main product of deoxygenation
and aldehydes
esters
carboxylic acids and ketones were the main organic oxygenated compounds generated from catalytic cracking of FAME. However
at higher temperature
liquid products contained scarcely any organic oxygenated compounds