This work focuses on the techno-economic analysis and life cycle analysis on the production of chemicals from lignocellulose feedstocks including three types of hydrolysis of lignocellulose to produce sugar mixtures to convert to furan derivatives and the production of p-Xylene. The development of efficient and economically sustainable routes for biobased chemical production has raised a lot of interest especially for the platform chemicals such as hydromethylfurfural (HMF), furfural, levulinic acid, etc. The aforementioned chemicals can be produced from glucose or xylose solutions. Different type of hydrolysis is used to produce sugar mixtures such as enzymatic hydrolysis, thermo-chemical hydrolysis etc. It is found that it is more economically and environmentally attractive to manufacture HMF and furfural from C5 and C6 mixtures that are produced from hydrolysis of 2nd generation (lignocellulosic) biomass.
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