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Title Advanced catalysis for drop-in chemicals / edited by Putla Sudarsanam and Hu Li
Published San Diego : Elsevier, 2021

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Contents Front Cover -- Advanced Catalysis for Drop-in Chemicals -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Sustainable technologies for platform and drop-in chemicals: production and applications -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Concept of biorefinery -- 1.3 Physiology of lignocellulosic biomass-derived sugars -- 1.4 Biological conversion of lignocellulosic hydrolysates to value-added and drop-in chemicals -- 1.4.1 Production of C3 chemicals -- 1.4.1.1 1,3-Propanediol (1,3-PDO) -- 1.4.1.2 1,2-Propanediol (1,2-PDO) -- 1.4.1.3 Lactic acid -- 1.4.2 Production of C4 chemicals -- 1.4.2.1 2,3-Butanediol -- 1.4.2.2 1,4-Butanediol -- 1.4.2.3 Butyric acid -- 1.4.2.4 Succinic acid -- 1.4.3 Production of C5 chemicals -- 1.4.3.1 2,4-Pentanediol -- 1.4.3.2 Itaconic acid -- 1.5 Catalytic conversion of bio-derived organic acids and diols -- 1.5.1 Organic acids from biomass -- 1.5.1.1 Succinic acid -- 1.5.1.2 Itaconic acid -- 1.5.1.3 Acetic acid -- 1.5.1.4 Terephthalic acid -- 1.5.1.5 Lactic acid -- 1.5.2 Polyols derived from biomass -- 1.6 Lignin valorization -- 1.6.1 Homogeneous acid/base-catalyzed depolymerization -- 1.6.1.1 Acid-catalyzed depolymerization/hydrolysis -- 1.6.1.2 Base-catalyzed depolymerization/hydrolysis -- 1.6.2 Oxidative depolymerization using homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts -- 1.6.3 Reductive depolymerization of lignin -- 1.6.4 Bio-catalytic transformation of lignin -- 1.7 Conclusions and future prospectives -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 2 Drop-in plastics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Synthesis techniques of bio-plastics -- 2.3 Structural and biodegradable properties of bio-ethylene, bio-polyethylene, bio-polypropylene, and bio-polyethylene tere... -- 2.3.1 bio-ethylene -- 2.3.1.1 Structural properties of bio ethylene low-level -- 2.3.1.1.1 Sucrose biomass -- 2.3.1.1.2 Starchy biomass -- 2.3.1.1.3 Ligno-cellulosic biomass
9.3.4.2 Deactivation and regeneration of catalyst -- 9.3.5 Catalytic cracking of bio-oil into renewable BTX -- 9.3.5.1 Catalytic cracking of bio-oil -- 9.3.6 Renewable propane to bio-BTX -- 9.4 Microwave-assisted pyrolysis of bio-aromatics -- 9.4.1 Microwave heating and its suitability for biomass processing -- 9.4.2 Microwave-assisted pyrolysis of biomass -- 9.4.3 Noncatalytic microwave-assisted pyrolysis -- 9.4.4 Catalytic microwave-assisted pyrolysis -- 9.4.4.1 Mechanism of catalytic microwave-assisted pyrolysis -- 9.5 Ionic liquids for bio-BTX and for separation of BTX -- 9.5.1 Regeneration of the ionic liquids -- 9.6 Commercial ventures of bio-BTX -- 9.7 Challenges and opportunities of catalysis of bio-BTX -- 9.7.1 Road blocks -- 9.7.2 Deactivation of the catalyst during pyrolysis of biomass -- 9.8 Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 10 Multiscale modeling studies for exploring lignocellulosic biomass structure -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Lignocellulosic components -- 10.2.1 Cellulose -- 10.2.2 Hemicellulose -- 10.2.3 Lignin -- 10.3 Multiscale modeling methods -- 10.4 Quantum mechanics -- 10.4.1 Background -- 10.4.2 Basis sets -- 10.4.3 Dispersion corrections -- 10.5 Molecular dynamics simulations -- 10.5.1 Intermolecular potentials (force field) -- 10.5.2 Builders for lignocellulosic polymers -- 10.6 Computational modeling of lignocellulosic biomass -- 10.6.1 Modeling of cellulose -- 10.6.2 Modeling of hemicellulose -- 10.6.3 Modeling of lignin -- 10.6.4 Interaction of biomass components -- 10.7 Multiscale study of moisture influence of lignocellulosic biomass -- 10.8 Multiscale modeling approach for pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass -- 10.9 Coarse-grained force field for lignocellulosic biomass -- 10.9.1 Reactive force fields for lignocellulosic biomass -- 10.10 Conclusions and outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References
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Subject Biomass chemicals.
Catalysis.
Catalysis
Biomass chemicals
Catalysis
Form Electronic book
Author Sudarsanam, Putla
Li, Hu
ISBN 9780128238417
0128238410