Catalytic conversion of biomass

Abstract


 Resource scarcity and increasing climate change have brought attention to the need for sustainable and renewable resources. Biomass is an earth-rich material with great potential as a feedstock for alternative fuels and chemicals. In order to utilize biomass efficiently, such biopolymers must be depolymerized and converted into key structural units and/or target products, and biological or chemical catalysts are often used for fast and energy-efficient reactions. This paper presents recent advances in the catalytic conversion of biomass into biofuels and value-added products. Hydrodeoxygenation is an important and unique method for converting biomass and biomass-derived oxygenated chemicals into high value-added chemicals and fuels. However, the synthesis of catalysts with excellent hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation performance at the same time remains a great challenge.

Review and Outlook on Regulation of Catalyst Activity, Selectivity, and Stability for Biomass Hydrodeoxygenation Reaction in an Aqueous Environment

“…2 Biomass can be transformed into sustainable fuels and chemicals through a range of different techniques. 3,4 Among them, the technology of producing biomass pyrolysis oil through rapid pyrolysis has matured and reached the scale of demonstration production, with a good prospect of applications. 5 Unfortunately, biomass pyrolysis oil involves a variety of oxygen-rich compounds such as aldehydes, phenols, ketones, esters, and furans, exhibiting a substantial oxygen content.…”