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Companies have put biofuels on the back burner to aim for higher margin chemicals
Tom Welton gives the wooden desk in his office a sharp rap with his knuckles. ‘That’s the sound of lignin,’ he says, grinning. ‘Have you seen its structure? It’s beautif »THE South African sugar industry has potential to contribute at least a 1,000MW to the national grid if the »
Why not from furfural?
1,4 butanediol, commonly known as BDO, is an organic compound predominantly used as a solvent in industrial cleaners and glue removers like tetrahydrofuran (THF). BDO is a saturated carbon-4 straight-chain dibasic alcohol. It is »
Production of high quality fuels from lignocellulose-derived chemicals: a convenient C-C bond formation of furfural, 5-methylfurfural and armotic aldehyde.
A new route of converting the whole lignocellulose biomass derived molecules into high qualit »
An addition to our list of possibilities: (RSC's Green Chemistry):
Recycling of waste leads to a decrease of environmental pollution and landfill sites. In this work, we describe a novel application of furfural residues in fabricating pH-responsive »
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