The use of fractional factorial design to analyze the effect of sulfuric acid concentration and temperature on furfural yield

Simultaneous Dehydration of Glucose and Xylose Present in a Process-Relevant Biorefinery Hydrolysate to Furfurals Using Heterogeneous Solid Acid Catalysts

“…Both furfural and HMF are known to be obtained from pentoses and hexoses, respectively, in acid catalyzed reactions using homogeneous and heterogeneous acid catalysts. − Dumesic and coworkers have reported the dehydration of glucose and xylose to HMF and furfural, respectively, in yields approaching 23 and 65% using HCl as the catalyst and a biphasic solvent mixture of MIBK and 2-butanol (7:3 v/v) as the organic phase with water and DMSO (5:5 v/v) as the aqueous phase . Cai et al.…”