Moving Bed Lipid Conversion With Fluid Bed Catalyst Regeneration

A reactor system includes a moving bed reactor that treats a lipid feedstock using a metal oxide catalyst to produce a treated stream comprising a bio-oil. The reactor system further includes a fluidized bed regenerator that regenerates spent metal oxide catalyst from the treating process in the moving bed reactor. Once the spent metal oxide catalyst is regenerated into metal oxide catalyst, it is returned to the moving bed reactor. The metal oxide catalyst returned to the moving bed reactor can contribute heat to the lipid feedstock to raise the lipid feedstock to a reaction temperature.