Bio-Fluxing Agent for Bitumen Road Based on Pyrolysis Bio-Oil †
by
,
Dorin Bombos
1, 
Catalina Calina
1,
Sanda Velea
2,
Mihaela Bombos
2,
Rami Doukeh
2
,
Gabriel Vasilievici
2 and
Elena-Emilia Oprescu
1,2,* 1
Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Faculty of Petroleum Refining and Petrochemistry, 100680 Ploiesti, Romania
2
The National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry—ICECHIM, 060021 Bucharest, Romania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Presented at the 15th International Symposium “Priorities of Chemistry for a Sustainable Development” PRIOCHEM, Bucharest, Romania, 30th October–1st November 2019.
Proceedings 2019, 29(1), 108; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019029108
Published: 18 October 2019
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Priorities of Chemistry for a Sustainable Development-PRIOCHEM)
Bio-oil is the liquid fraction obtained from the pyrolysis process and is an important source of both energy and valuable commodity chemicals. The liquid is composed of a water phase (containing diverse oxygenated hydrocarbons) and an organic tar phase containing a complex mixture of several hundreds of organic compounds such as acids, alcohols, aldehydes, esters, ketones, and phenols [1].
The pyrolysis-derived bio-oils from different biomass have different compositions but the basic properties for bio-oil usage as fuel substitute are heating value, viscosity, density, and stability. The oxygen content of biomass bio-oils is higher than that of fossil oil and, consequently, they have higher reactivity and lower stability than fossil fuels and cannot be used in their present form as transportation fuels [2]. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop new approaches to utilize these oils as sources of fuel additives or extenders. In this context, creating blends of bio-oil with other transportation fuels could be a viable short-term alternative to utilize an important fraction of these oils [3].
The objectives of this research were (a) conditioning of blends from bio-oil and lipid fraction, and (b) evaluation of bio-oil/lipids blends in order to obtain components for fuels and/or ecological additives for road bitumen. The bio-oil used in this study was obtained from the slow pyrolysis of biogas solid digestate. The physical and chemical properties of the pyrolysis oil/lipids/diesel blends were evaluated in accordance with the corresponding specification.
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the UEFISCDI, Romania, in the framework of PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017, financing contract No. 32 PCCDI/2018.
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Bombos, D.; Calina, C.; Velea, S.; Bombos, M.; Doukeh, R.; Vasilievici, G.; Oprescu, E.-E. Bio-Fluxing Agent for Bitumen Road Based on Pyrolysis Bio-Oil. Proceedings 2019, 29, 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019029108
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Bombos D, Calina C, Velea S, Bombos M, Doukeh R, Vasilievici G, Oprescu E-E. Bio-Fluxing Agent for Bitumen Road Based on Pyrolysis Bio-Oil. Proceedings. 2019; 29(1):108. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019029108
Chicago/Turabian StyleBombos, Dorin, Catalina Calina, Sanda Velea, Mihaela Bombos, Rami Doukeh, Gabriel Vasilievici, and Elena-Emilia Oprescu. 2019. "Bio-Fluxing Agent for Bitumen Road Based on Pyrolysis Bio-Oil" Proceedings 29, no. 1: 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019029108
