Characterization of Slow-Pyrolysis Bio-Oils by High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry

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• 作者：Birendra Dhungana ; Christopher Becker ; Behrooz Zekavat ; Touradj Solouki ; William C. Hockaday ; C. Kevin Chambliss
• 刊名：Energy & Fuels
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 19, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：29
• 期：2
• 页码：744-753
• 全文大小：656K
• ISSN：1520-5029

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Bio-oils produced from biomass pyrolysis are an attractive fuel source that requires significant upgrading. Before upgrade strategies can be developed, the molecular composition of bio-oils needs to be better understood. In this work, oily and aqueous fractions of bio-oils produced by slow pyrolysis of two feedstocks, pine shavings (PS) and corn stover (CS), were analyzed by negative electrospray ionization (ESI)-Orbitrap and ion mobility-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (IM-TOF-MS). Analyte ion signal was observed primarily between m/z 80 and 450 in the mass spectra of these samples. Mass defect analysis and collision-induced dissociation (CID) experiments performed on mobility-separated ions indicated a high degree of homology among bio-oil samples produced from both feedstocks. Oxygen-rich species having between 1 and 9 oxygen atoms and with double bond equivalents (DBEs) ranging from 1 to 15 were identified, indicating that catalytic upgrading will likely be required if slow-pyrolysis bio-oils are to be utilized as fuel. IM-MS and IM-MS/MS analysis of ions belonging to select CH₂-homologous series suggest that mass-mobility correlations and post-ion mobility CID mass spectra may be useful in defining structural relationships among members of a given Kendrick mass defect series.