Production, properties and catalytic hydrogenation of furfural to fuel additives and value-added chemicals

Yan, Kai; Wu, Guosheng; Lafleur, Todd; Jarvis, Cody

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.003

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“…F, a commercial product with a favourable market forecast (Dalin Yebo 2015), was considered as one of the top 12 platform chemicals derived from biomass in a report from the U.S. Department of Energy (Werpy et al 2004), which was updated 6 years later (Bozell and Petersen, 2010;De Jong et al 2012). F is an intermediate for manufacturing other chemicals (such as methylfuran, furfuryl alcohol, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, tetrahydrofuran, methyltetrahydrofuran, or furoic acid), and has a potential for further conversion into fuel or fuel additives (Lange et al 2012;Yan et al 2014;Choi et al 2015). The current technology for F production, based on the acid hydrolysis of native xylan-containing raw materials, can be significantly improved in terms of yield and energy efficiency (Lange et al 2012;Cai et al 2014).…”

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“…F losses have been mainly ascribed to selfpolymerization or cross polymerization with reactive species present in the medium (Cai et al 2014;Yan et al 2014). Operating in aqueous media without addition of catalysts, García-Domínguez et al (2013) reported the production of 4.4 g F per 100 g of Eucalyptus globulus under optimised conditions (8 g water g -1 wood, 60 min, 220°C), which were determined by neural modeling.…”

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Furfural production from birch hemicelluloses by two-step processing: a potential technology for biorefineries

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Birch samples were subjected to non-isothermal autohydrolysis to obtain a solution of hemicellulosic saccharides and a solid phase mainly made up of cellulose and lignin. Based on kinetic modeling, operational conditions were identified which give rise to soluble saccharides and furfural derived from xylan in a yield of 80.5%. The soluble mixture was supplemented with 1% sulfuric acid and heated (directly or in the presence of methyl isobutyl ketone, MIBK) for furfural production. MIBK is used as an extraction agent to limit furfural consumption by side reactions. Operating in single phase at 170°C, up to 44.8% of the potential substrates were converted into furfural. In experiments performed in biphasic media, the effects of MIBK were assessed by empirical modeling and about 75% of the potential substrates were converted under selected conditions.

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Furfural production from birch hemicelluloses by two-step processing: a potential technology for biorefineries

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“…Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), which are considered to be promising biorenewable platform chemicals, can be derived through acid-catalyzed dehydration of hemicellulose from various abundant agricultural raw materials, such as hemicellulose grain shell, hardwood lumber, corncobs, wheatbran, and other renewable biomass materials [4][5][6][7]. There were intense studies carried out on the production of high value-added chemical intermediates and end products from HMF using heterogeneous catalysts [8][9][10][11].…”

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Synthesis of Tetrahydropyran from Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol over Cu–Zno/Al2O3 under a Gaseous-Phase Condition

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Wang

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Tetrahydropyran (THP) represents an O-containing hetero-cyclic compound that can be used as a promising solvent or monomer for polymer synthesis. In this work, Cu-ZnO/Al 2 O 3 catalysts have been prepared by a facile precipitation-extrusion method and used for the synthesis of THP through gaseous-phase hydrogenolysis of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA). The effect of the molar ratio of Cu/Zn/Al, reaction temperature, and hydrogen pressure was investigated. An 89.4% selectivity of THP was achieved at 270 • C and 1.0 MPa H 2 . Meanwhile, the optimum molar ratio of Cu/Zn/Al was determined to be 4:1:10. The Cu-ZnO/Al 2 O 3 catalyst exhibited high catalytic activity and stability for 205 h on-stream. A possible reaction mechanism involving several consecutive reactions was proposed: THFA was firstly rearranged to 2-hydroxytetrahydropyran (2-HTHP), followed by the dehydration of 2-HTHP to 3,4-2H-dihydropyran (DHP) over acid sites; finally, the DHP was hydrogenated to THP. The synergy of acid sites and metal sites of Cu-ZnO/Al 2 O 3 played an important role during the production of THP.

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“…Furfural, which is derived from pentose, has been widely used as a solvent in the petroleum industry and is a precursor for many furan-based chemicals, such as furfuryl alcohol, furoic acid, maleic anhydride tetrahydrofuran, and phenolics (Lange et al 2012). Furfural also holds great potential for the production of "drop in" fuels such as dimethylfuran or ethyl levulinate, which can be produced by polymerization (Yan et al 2014;Bohre et al 2015). Levulinic acid, which is derived from hexose through the intermediate 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), has been identified by the U. S. Department of Energy as one of the top 12 highpotential and versatile platform chemicals (Werpy and Petersen 2004).…”

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A Two-Step Conversion of Corn Stover into Furfural and Levulinic Acid in a Water/Gamma-Valerolactone System

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A two-step hydrolysis method was evaluated as a potential means of obtaining high yields of furfural and levulinic acid from corn stover using sulfuric acid as catalyst in a water/gamma-valerolactone (GVL) system. The corn stover underwent a high-temperature hydrolysis process to produce levulinic acid, followed by a low-temperature hydrolysis process to produce furfural. A series of experiments were conducted to explore the relationship between the different reaction parameters and the final yields of furfural and levulinic acid. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) pictures together with X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis were used to further elaborate on the hydrolysis results. Molar yields of about 70.65% furfural and 57.7% levulinic acid were obtained by applying this method with a low temperature of 140 °C and a high temperature of 190 °C, together with 0.2 M of sulfuric acid used as the catalyst. These results indicated that this was an effective way to obtain satisfactory yields of furfural and levulinic acid from corn stover.

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Production, properties and catalytic hydrogenation of furfural to fuel additives and value-added chemicals

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Furfural production from birch hemicelluloses by two-step processing: a potential technology for biorefineries

Furfural production from birch hemicelluloses by two-step processing: a potential technology for biorefineries

Synthesis of Tetrahydropyran from Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol over Cu–Zno/Al2O3 under a Gaseous-Phase Condition

A Two-Step Conversion of Corn Stover into Furfural and Levulinic Acid in a Water/Gamma-Valerolactone System

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