A green method to increase yield and quality of bio-oil: ultrasonic pretreatment of biomass and catalytic upgrading of bio-oil over metal (Cu, Fe and/or Zn)/γ-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>

Surachai Karnjanakom, Guoqing Guan, Asep Bayu, Xiao Du, Xiaogang Hao, Jingxuan Yang, Chanatip Samart, Abuliti Abudula

RSC Advances · 2015 · 50 citations · 45 references

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Abstract

A green method is developed to increase the yield and quality of bio-oil by ultrasonic pretreatment of biomass followed by <italic>in situ</italic> catalytic upgrading of bio-oil over metal (Cu, Fe and/or Zn)/γ-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>.

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