Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 178, Issue -, Pages 147-156Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.09.132
Keywords
Hydrothermal; Liquefaction; Biomass; Algae; Lignocellulosic
Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-76RL01830]
- Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office
- EPSRC [EP/I014365/1, EP/L504993/1]
- EPSRC [EP/I014365/1, EP/F061374/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F061374/1, EP/I014365/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This review describes the recent results in hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of biomass in continuous-flow processing systems. Although much has been published about batch reactor tests of biomass HTL, there is only limited information yet available on continuous-flow tests, which can provide a more reasonable basis for process design and scale-up for commercialization. High-moisture biomass feedstocks are the most likely to be used in HTL. These materials are described and results of their processing are discussed. Engineered systems for HTL are described; however, they are of limited size and do not yet approach a demonstration scale of operation. With the results available, process models have been developed, and mass and energy balances determined. From these models, process costs have been calculated and provide some optimism as to the commercial likelihood of the technology. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available