| Title: | Transformations of biomass-derived platform molecules: from high added-value chemicals to fuels via aqueous-phase processing |
| Author(s): | Serrano-Ruiz JC; Luque R; Sepulveda-Escribano A; |
| Address: | "Laboratorio de Materiales Avanzados, Universidad de Alicante, Crta. San Vicente s/n, 03690 San Vicente, Alicante, Spain" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1460-4744 (Electronic) 0306-0012 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Global warming issues and the medium-term depletion of fossil fuel reserves are stimulating researchers around the world to find alternative sources of energy and organic carbon. Biomass is considered by experts the only sustainable source of energy and organic carbon for our industrial society, and it has the potential to displace petroleum in the production of chemicals and liquid transportation fuels. However, the transition from a petroleum-based economy to one based on biomass requires new strategies since the petrochemical technologies, well-developed over the last century, are not valid to process the biomass-derived compounds. Unlike petroleum feedstocks, biomass derived platform molecules possess a high oxygen content that gives them low volatility, high solubility in water, high reactivity and low thermal stability, properties that favour the processing of these resources by catalytic aqueous-phase technologies at moderate temperatures. This tutorial review is aimed at providing a general overview of processes, technologies and challenges that lie ahead for a range of different aqueous-phase transformations of some of the key biomass-derived platform molecules into liquid fuels for the transportation sector and related high added value chemicals" |
| Keywords: | *Biomass Carbohydrates/chemistry Catalysis Ethanol/chemistry Furans/chemistry Glycerol/chemistry Lactic Acid/chemistry Levulinic Acids/chemistry Succinates/chemistry Water/*chemistry; |
| Notes: | "MedlineSerrano-Ruiz, Juan Carlos Luque, Rafael Sepulveda-Escribano, Antonio eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review England 2011/06/30 Chem Soc Rev. 2011 Nov; 40(11):5266-81. doi: 10.1039/c1cs15131b. Epub 2011 Jun 29" |
