Method for producing bio-fuel that integrates heat from carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions to drive biomass gasification reactions

Cortright, Randy D; Dumesic, James A

Method for producing bio-fuel that integrates heat from carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions to drive biomass gasification reactions

Patent · 18 January 2011

OSTI ID:1013049

Cortright, Randy D ^[1]; Dumesic, James A ^[2]

Madison, WI
Verona, WI

A low-temperature catalytic process for converting biomass (preferably glycerol recovered from the fabrication of bio-diesel) to synthesis gas (i.e., H.sub.2/CO gas mixture) in an endothermic gasification reaction is described. The synthesis gas is used in exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions, such as Fischer-Tropsch, methanol, or dimethylether syntheses. The heat from the exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction is integrated with the endothermic gasification reaction, thus providing an energy-efficient route for producing fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources.

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Research Organization:: University of Wisconsin

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-84ER13183

Assignee:: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, WI); Virent Energy Systems (Madison, WI)

Patent Number(s):: 7,872,054

Application Number:: 11/690,533

OSTI ID:: 1013049

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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