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Title: Guidelines for performing lignin-first biorefining

Journal Article · · Energy & Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EE02870C · OSTI ID:1712788
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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  2. Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
  3. Renewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, USA, Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge
  4. Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  5. U.S. Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
  6. Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
  7. Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, USA
  8. Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  9. Center for Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
  10. State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian

With these guidelines, we aim to unite the lignin-first biorefining research field around best practices for performing or reporting feedstock analysis, reactor design, catalyst performance, and product yields.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308; SC0018409
OSTI ID:
1712788
Journal Information:
Energy & Environmental Science, Journal Name: Energy & Environmental Science Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 14; ISSN EESNBY; ISSN 1754-5692
Publisher:
Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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