Chemistry and stoichiometry of wood liquefaction

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5250625

Davis, H G; Kloden, D J; Schaleger, L L

The approximate stoichiometry of liquefaction, from data of two PDU runs and a laboratory run is Wood (100 g) + CO (0.1 - 0.4 Mol) ..-->.. CO/sub 2/ (0.5 - 1.0 Mol) + H/sub 2/O (0.4 - 0.8 Mol) + Product (55 - 64 g). Product includes wood oil, water soluble organics and residues. Water is formed by decomposition, carbon dioxide by decomposition and reduction of wood oxygen by CO. Aqueous products include many carboxylic acids plus a roughly equal percentage of non-acids. The wood oil is divided into a neutral fraction and three phenolic fractions of varying molecular weight. Some specific compounds found in water and oil phases are listed.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5250625
• Report Number(s): LBL-12202; CONF-810554-4; ON: DE82012548
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. symposium on biotechnology in energy production and conservation, Gatlinburg, TN, USA, 12 May 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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