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Process Analysis of Main Organic Compounds Dissolved in Aqueous Phase by Hydrothermal Processing of Açaí (Euterpe oleraceae, Mart.) Seeds: Influence of Process Temperature and Biomass-to-Water Ratio
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: Received: 17 February 2021 / Approved: 19 February 2021 / Online: 19 February 2021 (09:59:38 CET)
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Silva, C. D. M. S. D.; Castro, D. A. R. D.; Santo, M. C.; Machado, N. T.; da Silva Almeida, H.; Schultze, M.; Hofmann, T.; Lüder, U. Process Analysis of Main Organic Compounds Dissolved in Aqueous Phase by Hydrothermal Processing of Açaí (Euterpe oleraceae, Mart.) Seeds: Influence of Process Temperature and Biomass-to-Water Ratio. Preprints2021, 2021020431. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202102.0431.v1
Silva, C. D. M. S. D.; Castro, D. A. R. D.; Santo, M. C.; Machado, N. T.; da Silva Almeida, H.; Schultze, M.; Hofmann, T.; Lüder, U. Process Analysis of Main Organic Compounds Dissolved in Aqueous Phase by Hydrothermal Processing of Açaí (Euterpe oleraceae, Mart.) Seeds: Influence of Process Temperature and Biomass-to-Water Ratio. Preprints 2021, 2021020431. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202102.0431.v1
Silva, C. D. M. S. D.; Castro, D. A. R. D.; Santo, M. C.; Machado, N. T.; da Silva Almeida, H.; Schultze, M.; Hofmann, T.; Lüder, U. Process Analysis of Main Organic Compounds Dissolved in Aqueous Phase by Hydrothermal Processing of Açaí (Euterpe oleraceae, Mart.) Seeds: Influence of Process Temperature and Biomass-to-Water Ratio. Preprints2021, 2021020431. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202102.0431.v1
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Silva, C. D. M. S. D., Castro, D. A. R. D., Santo, M. C., Machado, N. T., da Silva Almeida, H., Schultze, M., Hofmann, T., & Lüder, U. (2021). Process Analysis of Main Organic Compounds Dissolved in Aqueous Phase by Hydrothermal Processing of Açaí (<em>Euterpe oleraceae</em>, Mart.) Seeds: Influence of Process Temperature and Biomass-to-Water Ratio. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202102.0431.v1
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Silva, C. D. M. S. D., Thomas Hofmann and Ulf Lüder. 2021 "Process Analysis of Main Organic Compounds Dissolved in Aqueous Phase by Hydrothermal Processing of Açaí (<em>Euterpe oleraceae</em>, Mart.) Seeds: Influence of Process Temperature and Biomass-to-Water Ratio" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202102.0431.v1
Abstract
This work aims to investigate systematically the influence of process temperature and biomass-to-water ration on the chemical composition of aqueous and gaseous phases and mass production of chemical by hydrothermal processing of Açaí (Euterpe Oleraceae, Mart.) seeds. The hydrothermal carbonization carried out at 175, 200, 225, and 250 °C, 2 °C/min, biomass-to-water ratio of 1:10, and at 250 °C, 2 °C/min, and biomass-to-water ratios of 1:10, 1:15, and 1:20, in technical scale. The chemical composition of aqueous phase determined by GC and HPLC and the volumetric composition of gaseous phase by using an infrared gas analyzer. For constant biomass-to-water ratio of 1:10, the yields of solid, liquid, and gaseous phases varied between 53.39 and 37.01% (wt.), 46.61 and 59.19% (wt.), and 0.00 and 3.80% (wt.), respectively. The yield of solids shows a smooth exponential decay with temperature, while that of liquid and gaseous phases a smooth growth. By variation of biomass-to-water ratios, the yields of solid, liquid, and gaseous reaction products varied between 53.39 and 32.09% (wt.), 46.61 and 67.28% (wt.), and 0.00 and 0.634% (wt.), respectively. The yield of solids decreases exponentially with increasing water-to-biomass ratio and that of liquid phase increases in a sigmoid fashion. For constant biomass-to-water ratio, the concentrations of Furfural and HMF decrease drastically with temperature, reaching a minimum at 250 °C, while that of phenols increases. In addition, the concentrations of CH3COOH and total carboxylic acids increase, reaching a maximum at 250 °C. For constant process temperature, the concentrations of aromatics vary smoothly with the temperature. The concentrations of furfural, HMF, and cathecol decrease with temperature, while that of phenols increases. The concentrations of CH3COOH and total carboxylic acids decrease exponentially with temperature. Finally, for the experiments with varying water-to-biomass ratios, the productions of chemicals (furfural, HMF, phenols, cathecol, and acetic acid) in the aqueous phase is highly dependent on the biomass-to-water ratio.
Keywords
Açaí seeds; hydrothermal carbonization; hot compressed water; process analysis; HMF; Furfural; Acetic Acid; Mass Production
Subject
Engineering, Automotive Engineering
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