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ArticleHeliyon2024

Hydrothermal liquefaction of sewage sludge: use of HCOOH and KOH to improve the slurry pumpability in a continuously operated plant.

C Prestigiacomo, Y Fan, U Hornung, N Dahmen, O Scialdone, A Galia

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

C PrestigiacomoDipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Y FanInstitut für Katalyseforschung und -technologie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (IKFT), Karlsruhe, Germany.
U HornungInstitut für Katalyseforschung und -technologie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (IKFT), Karlsruhe, Germany.
N DahmenInstitut für Katalyseforschung und -technologie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (IKFT), Karlsruhe, Germany.
O ScialdoneDipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
A GaliaDipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · DEUniversity of Palermo · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We studied the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of digested sewage sludge (DSS) as model of waste biomass in batch and continuous reactors. HCOOH and KOH were used to improve the slurry pumpability. HTL experiments were conducted at the same kinetic severity factor in a batch reactor of 25 mL of volume and in a continuously operated tubular reactor with 350 mL of volume. The observed outcomes suggested that it was not possible to achieve the pumpability of native DSS when a high concentrated stream of suspended solid particles has been fed to the HTL continuous plant. Using acidic or basic homogeneous additives, as potassium hydroxide or formic acid, it was possible to enhance the pumpability of a concentrated slurry of DSS in the continuous plant achieving yields of heavy oil (fraction of biocrude) similar to those obtained in the batch reactor and with higher H/C ratios. Hence, we found that HCOOH and KOH are promising additives for the practical implementation of a continuous HTL process.

Indexed as

BiofeedstocksContinuous plantHydrothermal liquefactionSewage sludgeWastes valorization

Identifiers

PMID38390112
PMCPMC10881357
OpenAlexW4391720987

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