Upgrading Lignocellulosic Products to Drop-In Biofuels via Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling and Hydrodeoxygenation Sequence

Sreekumar, Sanil; Balakrishnan, Madhesan; Goulas, Konstantinos; Gunbas, Gorkem; Gokhale, Amit A.; Louie, Lin; Grippo, Adam; Scown, Corinne D.; Bell, Alexis T.; Toste, F. Dean

doi:10.1002/cssc.201500754

Upgrading Lignocellulosic Products to Drop-In Biofuels via Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling and Hydrodeoxygenation Sequence

Journal Article · Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · ChemSusChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201500754· OSTI ID:1571029

Sreekumar, Sanil ^[1]; Balakrishnan, Madhesan ^[1]; Goulas, Konstantinos ^[1]; Gunbas, Gorkem ^[1]; Gokhale, Amit A. ^[2]; Louie, Lin ^[1]; Grippo, Adam ^[1]; Scown, Corinne D. ^[3]; Bell, Alexis T. ^[1]; Toste, F. Dean ^[1]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). College of Chemistry
BP North American Inc., Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division

Life-cycle analysis (LCA) allows the scientific community to identify the sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of novel routes to produce renewable fuels. Herein, we integrate LCA into our investigations of a new route to produce drop-in diesel/jet fuel by combining furfural, obtained from the catalytic dehydration of lignocellulosic pentose sugars, with alcohols that can be derived from a variety of bio- or petroleum-based feedstocks. As a key innovation, we developed recyclable transition-metal-free hydrotalcite catalysts to promote the dehydrogenative cross-coupling reaction of furfural and alcohols to give high molecular weight adducts via a transfer hydrogenation-aldol condensation pathway. Subsequent hydrodeoxygenation of adducts over Pt/NbOPO₄ yields alkanes. Finally, implemented in a Brazilian sugarcane biorefinery such a process could result in a 53-79% reduction in life-cycle GHG emissions relative to conventional petroleum fuels and provide a sustainable source of low carbon diesel/jet fuel.

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1571029

Journal Information:: ChemSusChem, Journal Name: ChemSusChem Journal Issue: 16 Vol. 8; ISSN 1864-5631

Publisher:: ChemPubSoc Europe

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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