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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.99, 443-448, July, 2021
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2021.04.056  Export Citation
Processing of agricultural apple fruit waste into sugar rich feedstocks for the catalytic production of 5-HMF over a Sn Amberlyst-15 resin catalyst
C.H.L. Tempelman†, J.F. Jacobs, S. Ramkhelawan, A. Mok, W. van der Zalm1, and V. Degirmenci2
  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Rotterdam Mainport Institute, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Lloydstraat 300, 3024 EA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 1Fruitbedrijf A. van der Zalm, Burchstraat 12, 5328 CR Rossum, The Netherlands
  • 2School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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In this study we considered processes of treatment of agricultural apple waste which is normally discarded. We show the effect of various pre-treatment procedures on the final catalytic performance to produce 5-HMF from this real world biomass waste. Our study of the various potential pre-treatment steps, and their effect on the catalytic performance, provides valuable new insights which can be used for the development of new processes for the localised small scale valorization of agricultural fruit waste. The apple waste is aimed to be converted into a sugar rich feedstock stream for the catalytic conversion to 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (5-HMF) at low temperatures (~120 °C). Filters with varying pore sizes were studied for the filtration of apple pomace after milling the rotten apples in order to reduce the solids content. The tested filters varied in pore sizes of 0.2 μm, 2 μm and 54 μm. The effect of heating, acid or base treatment of the apple slurry was evaluated for increasing the speed of filtration. The highest flow rate was obtained for the filter with 54 μm pores. The sugar rich filtrates were investigated in the catalytic conversion to 5-HMF over an easy-to-manufacture Sn exchanged resin (Amberlyst-15) catalyst. Results showed that filtrates obtained over a 2 mm filter lead to the highest 5-HMF yields (18 %) without extra additives. Adjustment of the reaction mixtures to pH 7 resulted in a lower catalytic activity. 5-HMF is proposed to be extracted from the aqueous layer by using an organic liquid layer (methyl isobutyl ketone, MIBK). In order to increase the diffusion of 5-HMF to the MIBK layer the addition of salts to the reaction mixture was investigated. This leads to lower catalytic activity, possibly due to catalyst deactivation. Our results showed that a relatively wide pore filter (54 μm) provides the fastest apple processing method and a filtrate reacting to the highest 5-HMF yield in catalytic conversion of the sugar rich product stream obtained from agricultural waste apples.
Keywords:Biomass;5-HMF;Apple;Filtration;Sn;Amberlyst-15
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