Direct Catalytic Conversion of Raw or Waste Biomass to Biofuels and Chemical Building Blocks
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomass Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 8361
Special Issue Editors
Interests: catalysis for sustainability; MW-assisted chemistry; nanomaterials; catalytic conversion; lignocellulosic biomass; biofuels synthesis; heterogeneous catalysts; synthesis of tailored catalytic systems
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Interests: biomass exploitation; lignocellulosic and waste biomass valorization; 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural, levulinic acid and furfural; biorefinery perspective; sustainable development; applied catalysis; Ru, Pd, Au and Cu heterogeneous systems; optimization of the catalytic performances
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of innovative approaches and resources for the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels from renewable materials is imperative, because of the depletion of fossil reserves and the environmental impact of fossil fuels. Biomass represents a sustainable feedstock for the chemical industry, offering also the opportunity for potentially CO2-neutral products. Recently, an increasing interest has been devoted to the direct synthesis of platform molecules from biomass resources, adopting one-pot approaches or cascade ones. Very important platform chemicals and biofuels as furfural, furfuryl alcohol, HMF or its ethers, but also levulinic acid and levulinates and their hydrogenation products can be obtained directly from raw or waste biomass, by proper tuning of the catalytic systems and by optimization of the reaction conditions. Different catalytic reactions can be involved in these approaches, as hydrolysis, alcoholysis, hydrogenation or hydrogen transfer, etherification. The proper selection of the starting raw materials and the optimization of the involved reactions represent the toughest challenge in the field of catalysis for renewables.
The aim of this Special Issue is
- to study how to directly convert the different components of raw or waste biomass to obtain valuable chemicals or biofuels,
- to study the synthesis of platform molecules directly starting from biomass in a one-pot approach or in a cascade strategy to obtain secondary bio-based chemicals,
- to examine the different catalytic reactions (homogeneous, heterogeneous, and enzymatic, as well as their combinations) using green reaction media (e.g., water, bioalcohols, ionic liquids, biphasic media, etc.);
- to evaluate and compare novel and combined process approaches, such as microwave irradiation, sonication, flow chemistry, microreactors, etc.
- to compare the ascertained biomass reactivity with that of model carbohydrates.
Prof. Anna Maria Raspolli Galletti
Prof. Claudia Antonetti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- raw biomass conversion
- green chemistry
- homogeneous catalysis
- heterogeneous catalysis
- enzymatic catalysis
- sonochemistry
- levulinic acid and levulinates
- furfural and furfuryl alcohols
- HMF and its ethers
- Biofuels
