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Liquid hydrocarbon fuels from fish oil industrial residues by catalytic cracking
Author(s) -
Mrad Nadia,
Paraschiv Maria,
Aloui Fethi,
Varuvel Edwin Geo,
Tazerout Mohand,
Nasrallah Sassi Ben
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.2906
Subject(s) - catalysis , acid value , chemistry , yield (engineering) , diesel fuel , fluid catalytic cracking , cracking , fuel oil , residue (chemistry) , hydrocarbon , fish oil , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , pulp and paper industry , fish <actinopterygii> , materials science , waste management , metallurgy , fishery , biochemistry , engineering , biology
SUMMARY In the present work, catalytic cracking of fish oil industrial residue was investigated to study the effect of temperature, type of catalyst and the heating rate on the yield of organic liquid fraction (OLF) and its acid value. The highest bio‐oil yield of 72% (wt.) was obtained at temperature range of 300–500 °C and heating rate of 10 °C/min with the mixture of Al 2 O 3 and Na 2 CO 3 as a catalyst. It was found that the mixture of Na 2 CO 3 and MgSO 4 as a catalyst gives lowest acid value of 8.75 mg KOH /g oil and 68.1% of OLF yield. Furthermore, the acid value is reduced to 0.36 mg KOH /g oil using Na 2 CO 3 as an absorbent. The results show that the catalytic cracking process represents a sustainable method to produce bio‐oil from fish oil industrial residues with physicochemical characteristics similar to the diesel fuel. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.