Visible light driven biomass can produce hydrogen and crude diesel

Recently, the reporter learned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences that the team of Wang Feng, a researcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, used the downstream products of light energy such as solar energy, artificial light sources and biomass such as straw and forest waste as raw materials to prepare diesel and hydrogen , Opened up a new model for the common utilization of biomass energy and hydrogen energy. Related papers were published in the recently published "Natural Energy".

Hydrogen is the ideal clean energy for the chemical industry and the future, and related technologies have attracted much attention. According to reports, in the process of hydrogen production by photocatalysis, photo-generated electrons can reduce protons to generate hydrogen, and if the photo-generated holes do not interact with the reaction substrate, it may oxidize the photocatalyst itself. Catalyst deactivation and other phenomena.

In response to these problems, people usually introduce sacrificial reagents to consume photogenerated holes, thereby improving hydrogen production efficiency and photocatalyst stability. However, waste is unavoidably generated in this process, and the hydrogen energy obtained is not even enough to offset the energy required for the production of sacrificial reagents. Therefore, it is particularly important to develop a technology that can both produce hydrogen and convert biomass into useful chemicals or fuels.

Biomass such as straw and forest waste is the most sustainable carbon resource in nature. It can replace petrochemical resources and provide people with a large number of production and daily necessities. As an alternative method for producing hydrogen by using light energy to decompose water, the biomass raw materials are decomposed under the driving of visible light, and generally higher light energy utilization rate and hydrogen generation rate can be obtained.

After a long-term exploration, the research team of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences used visible light to drive the downstream products of biomass, namely methylfuran compounds, and then completed the process of producing two energy products, hydrogen and crude diesel. It is reported that the reaction can be carried out at normal temperature and pressure to obtain a very rich raw diesel, and the oxygen in the raw diesel can be removed to obtain a renewable high-quality oil product that is closer to the diesel on the market. The by-products are hydrogen.

Research team leader Wang Feng said that the process uses light energy and biomass to produce hydrogen, and the resulting biomass products are further processed to produce high-quality diesel. One process generates two important energy products at the same time, which can be described as "one arrow, two carvings". (Reporter Hao Xiaoming)

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