Through the previous study a hydrothermal polymerization (HTP)—a catalytic methodology for treating various biomass and organic wastes—has been developed on a lab scale with a 1 L reactor and the results published. The research work described herein aims to ensure that the catalytic process is scalable for pilot and even commercial scale plants. A 1700 L binary reactor system has been built and the assumptions of a commercial scale plant that would have 10,000 to 20,000 L pressure vessels tested. The HTP catalytic biofuel process converts mono- and polysaccharides into a solid polymer fuel that is based on a furfuraldehyde ring system. The calorific value of the material obtained from the pilot plant is on the order of 27 MJ/kg and the material typically has low ash and fixed carbon content order of 48% which are about same as the lab results for various wood biomass feedstocks. Though a 1700 times scale up binary reactor system the scalability of the HTP catalytic methodology has been confirmed and the mass and energy balance of the binary reactor identified in order to provide fundamental data for commercial scale establishment in future.

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中试装置对各种生物质进行水热聚合催化过程效果的实验研究

通过先前的研究，已经在实验室规模上使用1 L反应器开发了一种水热聚合（HTP）（一种用于处理各种生物质和有机废物的催化方法），并发表了结果。本文所述的研究工作旨在确保催化过程可扩展用于中试甚至商业规模的工厂。已经建造了一个1700 L的二元反应器系统，并假设一个商业规模的工厂将测试10,000到20,000 L的压力容器。HTP催化生物燃料工艺将单糖和多糖转化为基于糠醛环系统的固体聚合物燃料。从中试工厂获得的材料的热值约为27 MJ / kg，该材料通常具有低灰分和48％的固定碳含量，与各种木材生物质原料的实验室结果大致相同。尽管规模扩大了1700倍的二元反应器系统，但已确认了HTP催化方法的可扩展性，并确定了二元反应器的质量和能量平衡，以便为将来的商业规模建立提供基础数据。