SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2008.054 2008.054 Pyrolysis of soybean oil with H-ZSM5 and MCM41 catalysts in a fixed-bed reactor NgoThanh An KimJinsoo KimSun Kuk KimSeung-Soo Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 449-701 South Korea Department of Architecture Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 449-701 South Korea Department of Chemical Engineering, Kangwon National University, Samcheok, Gangwon-do, 245-711 South Korea 24082008 7 1 978-1-995850-08-5 414 421 24 August 2008 © 2008 Copyright WSSET 2008

Soybean oil was pyrolyzed with various catalysts in a fixed bed reactor under nitrogen flow at 420 and 450°C. The H-ZSM5 catalysts (molar ratio SiO2/Al2O3 = 28, 40, and 180) and 2 wt% (Ga, Al or Cu) impregnated MCM41 catalysts were used in order to investigate the effect of catalysts during the pyrolysis process. The gas products in all experiments were mainly methane, ethane and propylene. The liquid products in the presence of H-ZSM5 catalysts were mainly aromatic components while those with metal/MCM41 catalysts were a mixture of alkanes, alkenes, alkadienes, aromatic and carboxylic acids. The highest coke yield of 4.4 wt% was obtained with Ga/MCM41 catalyst at the pyrolysis temperature of 420°C. The effect of catalysts on product yield and composition was systematically investigated.

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