Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of preparing hydrogen and liquid fuel from a feedstock that comprises plastics, the method comprising: generating a first gas stream, that is a pyrolysis gas, by performing a pyrolysis process on the feedstock; condensing some of the first gas stream to generate a second gas stream and pyrolysis oil, wherein the second gas stream is a light component of the pyrolysis gas; performing a reforming process on the second gas stream to generate hydrogen; and generating liquid fuel by performing a hydrogenation process on the pyrolysis oil; wherein the hydrogenation process reacts the pyrolysis oil with at least some of the generated hydrogen by the reforming process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for the preparation of biofuel from biomass by fast hydropyrolysis or fast pyrolysis, using hydrogen generated by sorption enhanced steam reforming. The present invention also relates to fixed bed tandem catalytic-upgrading processes, and reactors and hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) catalysts useful in those processes.