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Biomass Chemical Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (4): 53-59.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5854.2023.04.007

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Constituent Analysis of Hydrothermally Liquefying Products of Yunnan Coffea arabica Linn. Shells

Guangrong LIU, Jing LI, Qiang HUANG()   

  1. Yunnan Key Laboratory of Carbon Neutrality and Green Low-carbon Technologies, School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
  • Received:2022-05-20 Online:2023-07-30 Published:2023-07-08
  • Contact: Qiang HUANG E-mail:huangqiang@ynu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The coffee shell waste produced by the processing of Yunnan Arabica Coffee was used as raw material, and its hydrothermal liquefaction was catalyzed by iron and the liquefaction products were extracted by solvent to obtain the coffee shell bio-oils and the residual biochars. The light bio-oil extracted from the aqueous phase with ether and the heavy bio-oil extracted from the solid phase with ethanol were analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. It was identified that the light oil yield was around 7%, mainly containing more than 50% furfural and its derivatives, more than 10% phenol and its derivatives, while heavy oil yield was around 14%, mainly containing 36.19% caffeine, 41.3% fatty acids and other substances. The solid residue was a biochar rich in oxygen-containing functional groups and uniformly embedded with nano-zero valent iron, which had the performance of catalyzing the oxidative degradation of tetracycline by persulfate, and the biochar could remove about 80% of tetracycline in water within 150 min.

Key words: coffee shells, hydrothermal liquefaction, bio-oils, biochar

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