Application of Novel Catalytic Systems in the Processes of Hydrogen production from Biomass Derivatives

AVILA, MARÍA SOL; BASILE, FRANCESCO

Trieste

Workshop; Expert Group Meeting on Biofuels and biobased chemicals. An opportunity for developing countries?; 2011

ICS-UNIDO

Global biofuel production has been increasing rapidly over the last years, but the expanding biofuel industry has recently raised important concerns. In particular, the sustainability of many first-generation biofuels – which are produced primarily from food crops such as grains, sugar cane and vegetable oils – has been increasingly questioned over concerns such as reported displacement of food-crops, effects on the environment and climate change. In general, second generation biofuels are produced from cellulosic materials (lignocellulosic feedstocks). These raw material options may result in the production of more fuel per unit of agricultural land used and require less chemical and energy input per production and harvesting resulting in a higher yield in terms of net GJ energy produced per hectare land used. The first part of this plan consist on study a novel catalysts for the hydrogen production by reforming and prove the catalyst activity. Eventually improve the resistance of catalyst to poisons and deactivation by support modification. The second part of this work consists on catalytic test of the promising catalyst on real gas from gasification. For this, is required a prior selection based on the reaction conditions used in the facilities of ENEA.