ChemSusChem

Effective production of octane from biomass derivatives under mild conditions

W Xu, Q Xia, Y Zhang, Y Guo, Y Wang, G Lu

Index: Xu, Wenjie; Xia, Qineng; Zhang, Yu; Guo, Yong; Wang, Yanqin; Lu, Guanzhong ChemSusChem, 2011 , vol. 4, # 12 p. 1758 - 1761

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Abstract

The diminishing reserves of fossil fuels have rendered the production of liquid fuels from renewable biomass resources particularly attractive, and worldwide many efforts have been devoted to the conversion of biomass into transportation fuels.[1, 2] The overall goals when converting lignocellulosic biomass to hydrocarbon fuels are the removal of oxygen and the formation of CÀC bonds; the latter to control the molecular weight of the final ...