Pyrolytic lignin: a promising biorefinery feedstock for the production of fuels and valuable chemicals

MB Figueirêdo, I Hita, PJ Deuss, RH Venderbosch… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignocellulosic biomass is a key feedstock for the sustainable production of biofuels,
biobased chemicals and performance materials. Biomass can be efficiently converted into …

Biomolecules as green flame retardants: recent progress, challenges, and opportunities

SH Jeong, CH Park, H Song, JH Heo, JH Lee - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerous flame retardants (FRs) have been researched since the 1900s to improve the fire-
resistance performance of materials used in construction, industrial production, and daily …

Biomass feedstocks for renewable fuel production: a review of the impacts of feedstock and pretreatment on the yield and product distribution of fast pyrolysis bio-oils …

D Carpenter, TL Westover, S Czernik, W Jablonski - Green Chemistry, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Renewable transportation fuels from biomass have the potential to substantially reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and diversify global fuel supplies. Thermal conversion by fast …

Comparison of the pyrolysis behavior of pyrolytic lignin and milled wood lignin by using TG–FTIR analysis

S Wang, H Lin, B Ru, W Sun, Y Wang, Z Luo - Journal of Analytical and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Pyrolytic lignin (PL), the main water-insoluble fraction in bio-oil, has an obvious negative
effect on the application of biomass pyrolysis technology. The structures of PL and milled …

Lignin valorization through thermochemical conversion: comparison of hardwood, softwood and herbaceous lignin

S Zhou, Y Xue, A Sharma, X Bai - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the present study, milled wood lignin (MWL) and organosolv lignin isolated from red oak
(hardwood), loblolly pine (softwood) and corn stover (herbaceous biomass) were …

Revealing the pathways of catalyst deactivation by coke during the hydrodeoxygenation of raw bio-oil

T Cordero-Lanzac, R Palos, I Hita, JM Arandes… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Virtually all processes aiming for fuels and chemicals from biomass entail no less than one
step for removing oxygen by hydrodeoxygenation (HDO). The bottleneck of HDO is the …

Liquid-phase reforming and hydrodeoxygenation as a two-step route to aromatics from lignin

AL Jongerius, PCA Bruijnincx, BM Weckhuysen - Green chemistry, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
A two-step approach to the conversion of organosolv, kraft and sugarcane bagasse lignin to
monoaromatic compounds of low oxygen content is presented. The first step consists of …

On the yield of levoglucosan from cellulose pyrolysis

S Maduskar, V Maliekkal, M Neurock… - ACS Sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fast pyrolysis is a thermochemical process to fragment large biopolymers such as cellulose
to chemical intermediates which can be refined to renewable fuels and chemicals …

Functionality and molecular weight distribution of red oak lignin before and after pyrolysis and hydrogenation

DJ McClelland, AH Motagamwala, Y Li, MR Rover… - Green …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Three red oak derived lignin samples: 1. lignin extracted from red oak chips using γ-
valerolactone (GVL lignin), 2. lignin extracted from the pyrolysis oil of red oak chips by …

Cleaner production of iron by using waste macadamia biomass as a carbon resource

U Kumar, S Maroufi, R Rajarao, M Mayyas… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Macadamia nut shell, an Australian waste biomass, was pyrolyzed to produce biochars at
temperatures ranging from 500° C to 1300° C, using lab scale horizontal tube furnace …