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Published on: June 5, 2021
Furfural production by 'acidic steam stripping' of lignocellulose
Jeroen van Buijtenen1, Jean-Paul Lange, Leticia Espinosa Alonso
1Shell Chemicals Europe B.V. Weena 70, 3012 CM Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
Abstract:
Furfural and acetic acid are produced with approximately 60 and 90 mol % yield, respectively, upon stripping bagasse with a gaseous stream of HCl/steam and condensing the effluent to water/furfural/acetic acid. The reaction kinetics is 1(st) order in furfural and 0.5(th) order in HCl. A process concept with full recycling of the reaction effluents is proposed to reduce the energy demand to <10 tonsteam tonfurfural (-1) and facilitate the product recovery through a simple liquid/liquid separation of the condensate into a water-rich and a furfural-rich phase.
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