TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting Diels-Alder reactions to produce bio-BTX
T2 - Co-aromatization of textile waste and plastic waste over USY zeolite
AU - Wang, Jia
AU - Jiang, Jianchun
AU - Ding, Jinhua
AU - Wang, Xiaobo
AU - Sun, Yunjuan
AU - Ruan, Roger
AU - Ragauskas, Arthur J.
AU - Ok, Yong Sik
AU - Tsang, Daniel C.W.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52006106 ), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK2020789 ), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2020TQ0154 ), the Hong Kong Research Grants Council ( PolyU 15217818), and the Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Materials (JSBEM-S-202002).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/9/10
Y1 - 2021/9/10
N2 - Producing commodity aromatic hydrocarbons from textile waste is a promising approach to promote carbon neutrality and circular economy. Catalytic degradation of flax waste (FW) to generate furans and its subsequent Diels-Alder transformation to monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons over USY zeolite were conducted. Experimental results indicated that USY catalyzed FW resulted in a 5.5-fold increase in furans production compared with the non-catalytic trial. The Si/Al molar ratio in USY played a determining role in furans formation, and a 5-fold increase was observed over USY with a Si/Al ratio of 5.3 as opposed to that with a Si/Al ratio of 11. Plastic waste, polyethylene (PE), co-fed with FW yielded 1.6 times higher aromatic hydrocarbons than polypropylene (PP). The selectivity to aromatic hydrocarbons reached 81.6% under 20% PE co-fed with 80% FW, in which benzene, toluene, and xylenes (BTX) were predominant products with the maximum selectivity of 68%. This study presents a cleaner approach for value-added resource recovery and sustainable management of textile and plastic waste.
AB - Producing commodity aromatic hydrocarbons from textile waste is a promising approach to promote carbon neutrality and circular economy. Catalytic degradation of flax waste (FW) to generate furans and its subsequent Diels-Alder transformation to monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons over USY zeolite were conducted. Experimental results indicated that USY catalyzed FW resulted in a 5.5-fold increase in furans production compared with the non-catalytic trial. The Si/Al molar ratio in USY played a determining role in furans formation, and a 5-fold increase was observed over USY with a Si/Al ratio of 5.3 as opposed to that with a Si/Al ratio of 11. Plastic waste, polyethylene (PE), co-fed with FW yielded 1.6 times higher aromatic hydrocarbons than polypropylene (PP). The selectivity to aromatic hydrocarbons reached 81.6% under 20% PE co-fed with 80% FW, in which benzene, toluene, and xylenes (BTX) were predominant products with the maximum selectivity of 68%. This study presents a cleaner approach for value-added resource recovery and sustainable management of textile and plastic waste.
KW - Catalytic pyrolysis
KW - Diels-alder reactions
KW - Low-carbon biorefinery
KW - Sustainable waste management
KW - Textile and plastic waste
KW - USY zeolite
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127966
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127966
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85108288517
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 314
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
M1 - 127966
ER -
