Integrated lignocellulosic biorefinery for efficient production of furans and photothermal materials

Liu, Chao; Wang, Kui; Zhao, Xinpeng; Chen, Zhijun; Yin, Xiaoyan; Cai, Tingting; Zhang, Xiaolei; Xu, Junming; Hu, Jun; Meng, Xianzhi; Ragauskas, Arthur J.; Jiang, Jianchun

doi:10.1016/j.cej.2022.139688

Title: Integrated lignocellulosic biorefinery for efficient production of furans and photothermal materials

Journal Article · Sat Oct 08 00:00:00 UTC 2022 · Chemical Engineering Journal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.139688 · OSTI ID:1899825

Liu, Chao ^[1]; Wang, Kui ^[1]; Zhao, Xinpeng ^[2]; Chen, Zhijun ^[2]; Yin, Xiaoyan ^[3]; Cai, Tingting ^[3]; Zhang, Xiaolei ^[4]; Xu, Junming ^[1]; Hu, Jun ^[5]; Meng, Xianzhi ^[6];

^[7]; Jiang, Jianchun ^[1]

National Engineering Lab. for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Nanjing (China); Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China)
Northeast Forestry University, Harbin (China)
National Engineering Lab. for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Nanjing (China)
Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Northwest University, Xi’an (China)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Integrated lignocellulosic biorefineries offer a great potential to valorize all the components in lignocellulose into products, including fuels, chemicals, and materials. However, because of lignocellulose recalcitrance, conversion of bioresources remains a techno-economic challenge for many lignocellulosic biorefineries. In this work, we have proposed a sustainable and profitable biorefinery strategy for lignocellulose fractionation and conversion. In this design, a biphasic solvent consisting of a molten salt hydrate LiCl·4H₂O and γ-valerolactone (GVL) was initially used for separating hemicellulose from lignocellulose. More interestingly, 100 wt% of biorefinery products from lignin were directly converted to functional photothermal materials by coordinating with Fe³⁺ for solar-thermal-electricity conversion. Attributed to this rational design, we report the techno-economic analysis predicts a revenue of 439.3 USD by processing 100 kg of lignocellulosic biomass using the above developed method.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1899825

Journal Information:: Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal Name: Chemical Engineering Journal Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 453; ISSN 1385-8947

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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