The development of alternative fuels could lessen the demand for petroleum and potentially replace a significant amount of petroleum based fuels.  Such fuel would need to be produced from renewable resources without negatively impacting the agricultural industry or competing with current food sources.  Alternatively, the discarded products from agricultural or forestry industries can be utilized as solid biomass feedstocks for biofuel production that can be additives to or replace petroleum based fuels.  Thus, characterization of the compounds that comprise biofuels aids in their assessment as viable alternative fuels for petroleum.  Previous analysis of bio-oils has focused on the characterization of the whole bio-oil by (e.g.) FT-IR, TGA, and GC-MS.  Here, detailed analysis of bio-oils from several difference sources by FT-ICR MS reveals bio-oil molecular-level composition.  The wide range of compounds indentified within the different bio-oils highlights the complexity of the liquid products generated from different starting materials and pyrolysis conditions.

Detailed characterization of generation II bio-oils by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

244th National Meeting (2012)

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