Researchers Develop Four-step Catalytic Process to Produce Petroleum Refinery Feedstocks from Biomass Sugars...

摘要

A team of researchers led by James Dumesic and George Huber, both now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have demonstrated how C5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. The renewable petroleum feedstock comprises normal, branched and cyclic alkanes up to 31 carbons in length and is similar in composition to the feedstocks produced in a petroleum refinery from crude oil. The new process can be tuned to adjust the size of the liquid aikanes. These renewable feedstocks can be further processed in existing petroleum refineries to make common refinery products.