Abstract

Effective separation methods must be developed before bio-oils become a source of chemical products or liquid fuels by further upgrading. Phase separation is one effective pathway to realize an initial isolation of bio-oils. When aqueous salt solutions are added, phase separation of the pyrolysis bio-oil can occur to form two different phases: the upper layer with high contents of water, acetic acid, and water-soluble compounds and the bottom layers with low water content and high lignin pyrolysis compounds [Song, Q.-H.; Nie, J.-Q.; Ren, M.-G.; Guo, Q.-X.Effective phase separation of biomass pyrolysis oils by adding aqueous salt solutions. Energy Fuels 2009, 23 (6), 3307−3312]. In this paper, the salt-induced phase separation of bio-oils with 20 kinds of salt solutions was investigated. On the basis of the dependence of the mass ratio of the bio-oil bottom layer to the whole bio-oil sample upon the salt solution concentrations, it has been demonstrated that the phase separation derives from a normal ionic...

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