Abstract
Biomass offers a unique resource for the sustainable production of bio-derived chemical and fuels as drop-in replacements for the current fossil fuel products. Lignin represents a major component of lignocellulosic biomass, but is particularly recalcitrant for valorization by existing chemical technologies due to its complex cross-linking polymeric network. Here, we highlight a range of catalytic approaches to lignin depolymerisation for the production of aromatic bio-oil and monomeric oxygenates.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 243–256 |
| Journal | Applied Petrochemical Research |
| Volume | 6 |
| Early online date | 3 Jun 2016 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2016 |
Bibliographical note
© The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.Funding: EPSRC (EP/K021796/1 and EP/K029525/2) for financial support. Support from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement No. 604307 is also acknowledged.
Keywords
- biomass
- lignin
- heterogeneous catalysis
- solid acid