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Progress in Chemistry 2010, Vol. 22 Issue (09): 1844-1851 Previous Articles   Next Articles

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Chemocatalytic Transformation of Sugars to Transportation Fuels

Sun Shaohui1*   Sun Peiqin1  Ma Guojie1  Heng Mingxing1  Chen Junwu2   

  1. (1. College of Chemical Engineering and Energy, zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450002; 2. Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Corporation Luoyang 471003)
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  • Contact: Sun shaohui E-mail:shaohui99@zzu.edu.cn
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Agricultural and forest residues consisting primarily hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin are abundant, renewable non-food biomass resources. Fermentable sugars origin from this raw material can be converted into ethanol by biocatalystic process. Moreover, Sugars have the potential to serve as precursors of conventional transportation fuels. In this review, the process of hydrolytic conversion of woody biomass into simple sugars with the use of an acidic or enzymatic catalyst is introduced. Then, several novel chemocatalytic methods converting sugars to hydrocarbons are described, such as sugar feed directly reformed over HZSM-5 catalyst, or via Levulinic acid and subsequent esterification/hydrogenation process, polyols and subsequent aqueous-phase dehydration/hydrogenation (APD/H) process, furan derivatives and subsequent aldol condensation/hydrogenation process, monofunctional compounds and subsequent catalytic upgrading steps. These chemical routes have been explored in recent years, in the presence of solid-phase catalysts（including metal and/or acid/base active sites） under carefully controlled conditions that avoid unwanted by-products. The corresponding catalysts, process conditions, chemistries for the selective conversion are summarized in this review. More attention is paid on the current developing of two catalytic approaches for the conversion of sugars to C6+ alkanes due to targeted high-energy hydrocarbons mixtures can be used directly or blended seamlessly to make conventional liquid fuels. The reactions involved in the catalytic processes, deoxygenation mechanism, as well as the chemical and engineering barriers of industry are discussed.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Sugar production
3 Sugars conversion into fuels
3.1 Sugars route
3.2 Levulinic route
3.3 Polyols route
3.4 Furfural route
3.5 Monofunctional compounds route
4 Current advances and discussion

Key words: woody biomass, sugar, chemocatalysis, biofuel

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