Integrated strategy for concurrent production of furfuryl alcohol and glycerol oxygenates

摘要

This paper develops an integrated strategy that combines two conversion technologies to concurrently convert biomass-derived feedstocks (furfural (FF) and glycerol (Gly)) to furfuryl alcohol (FFA) and glycerol derivatives respectively. Effective utilization of H-2 is a key challenge for techno-economic feasibility of this integrated strategy. Catalytic hydrogenation of FF requires H-2 which can be supplied by electrocatalytic oxidation of Gly. This integration of processes yields FFA at lower cost than the current market price and a stand-alone FFA-production strategy. This strategy of integrating technologies to produce different products from different feedstocks may be widely applicable for production of bio-derived chemicals. (C) 2019 The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.