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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 22-34.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2017.02.003

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Progress on Reaction and Catalyst for Production of C5/C6 Alkane Fuels from Cellulose by Catalytic Conversion

CHEN Lungang1, LIU Yong1,2, ZHANG Xinghua1, ZHANG Qi1, WANG Tiejun1, MA Longlong1   

  1. 1. Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences;Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences;Guangdong Key Laboratory of New and Renewable Energy Research and Development, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2016-07-20 Online:2017-04-25 Published:2017-05-04

Abstract: The reactions and catalytic systems for the production of C5/C6 alkanes from cellulose or lignocellulosic biomass were summarized. The reaction pathways mainly included one-pot conversion of cellulose to alkanes by hydrolysis-hydrodeoxygenation; and hydrocarbon fuels produced from C6 platform compounds by hydrodeoxygenation. The reaction pathways and catalysts of alkanes production from raw lignocelluloses, cellulose, glucose and sorbitol were summarized. And the reaction pathways mainly included sorbitol, isosorbide, HMF and caprolactone routes. The metal-acid multifunctional catalysts were widely used; acid catalysts included metal oxides, zeolites, heteropoly acids, ionic liquid acid and inorganic acid, etc., and the metal catalysts were mainly Pd, Pt, Ni, Ru, Ir, etc. The metal Ru was popularly studied due to its excellent catalytic performance under the acidic hydrothermal environment. Finally, for the state-of-the-art technologies in the conversion of biomass to C5/C6 alkanes, the main uncertainties, bottlenecks and research needs were concluded and prospected.

Key words: cellulose, catalysis, alkane, hydrolysis, hydrodeoxygenation

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