Industrial Development of Furfural

Brownlee, Harold J.; Miner, C. S.

doi:10.1021/ie50458a005

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“…For the rst time in 1921, Quaker Oats Company commercially produced furfural from xylose and xylan using H 2 SO 4 as catalyst. 19 Since then improvements in furfural production have been made using homogenous catalysts such as mineral acids, 20 organic acids, 21 and Lewis acids [22][23][24] as well as ionic liquid.…”

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Production of furfural from xylose and corn stover catalyzed by a novel porous carbon solid acid in γ-valerolactone

Zhu

et al. 2017

RSC Adv.

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A resorcinol-formaldehyde resin carbon (RFC) catalyst with a well-developed, ordered, mesoporous framework was prepared using a soft template method at room temperature. The carbon was sulfonated in water using sulfanilic acid under mild atmospheric conditions. The sulfonated RFC (S-RFC) was characterized by N 2 adsorption-desorption, elemental analysis, TEM, XPS, and FT-IR. It was determined that S-RFC is an efficient solid acid catalyst for furfural production from xylose and corn stover in gvalerolactone (GVL). The effects of reaction time, reaction temperature, catalyst loading, substrate dosage and water concentration were investigated. 80% furfural yield and 100% xylose conversion were obtained from xylose at 170 C in 15 min with 0.5 g catalyst. Comparatively, 68.6% furfural yield was achieved from corn stover at 200 C in 100 min when using 0.6 g catalyst. Since there was no discernable decrease in furfural yield after multiple conversions utilizing the same catalyst, the recyclability of the catalyst is considered good.

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Production of furfural from xylose and corn stover catalyzed by a novel porous carbon solid acid in γ-valerolactone

Zhu

et al. 2017

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“…Furfural has a broad industrial application profile, including the production of plastic, pharmaceutical and agrochemical products, and so its manufacture constitutes a primary process for generating a variety of non-petroleum derived chemicals from saccharides. In conventional furfural production processes sulphuric acid is used as a catalyst, which is toxic, corrosive and suffers from several drawbacks common to homogeneous catalysts [2,3]. Running a reaction under heterogeneous catalytic conditions has several advantages over a homogeneous process, including easier separation and reuse of the catalyst, longer catalytic lifetimes, toleration of a wide range of temperatures and pressures, and easier/safer catalyst handling, storage and disposal.…”

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Liquid-phase Dehydration of d-xylose over Microporous and Mesoporous Niobium Silicates

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Microporous AM-11 crystalline niobium silicates were studied as solid acid catalysts for the dehydration of xylose in a watertoluene solvent mixture at 140-180°C. After 6 h at 160°C, xylose conversions of up to 90% and furfural yields of up to 50% were achieved, and the catalysts could be reused without loss of activity or selectivity. The calcined AM-11 catalysts gave higher furfural yields than HY zeolite and mordenite, under identical reaction conditions. Ordered mesoporous MCM-41-type niobium silicates with Si/Nb molar ratios of either 25 or 50 were also found to be recyclable catalysts for xylose dehydration, and gave furfural yields consistently in the range of 34-39% (after 6 h reaction at 160°C).

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“…Discovered in 1821 by Doebereiner as a side product from the distillation of dead ants 12 , soon it was found that it could be produced from various crop residues via the acid-catalysed depolymerisation of hemicellulose and subsequent dehydration of xylose. Industrial production of furfural was started by the Quaker Oats company in 1921 13 , and with the development of lignocellulosic biorefineries it can be expected to be produced at high volume and lower cost in the near future 14 .…”

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Renewable pyridinium ionic liquids from the continuous hydrothermal decarboxylation of furfural-amino acid derived pyridinium zwitterions

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Fully renewable pyridinium ionic liquids were synthesised via the hydrothermal decarboxylation of pyridinium zwitterions derived from furfural and amino acids in flow. The functionality of the resulting ionic liquid (IL) can be tuned by choice of different amino acids as well as different natural carboxylic acids as the counterions. A representative member of this new class of ionic liquids was successfully used for the synthesis of ionogels and as a solvent for the Heck coupling

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Industrial Development of Furfural

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Production of furfural from xylose and corn stover catalyzed by a novel porous carbon solid acid in γ-valerolactone

Production of furfural from xylose and corn stover catalyzed by a novel porous carbon solid acid in γ-valerolactone

Liquid-phase Dehydration of d-xylose over Microporous and Mesoporous Niobium Silicates

Renewable pyridinium ionic liquids from the continuous hydrothermal decarboxylation of furfural-amino acid derived pyridinium zwitterions

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