Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 149, Issue -, Pages 216-224Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.09.006
Keywords
Levulinic acid; Acid hydrolysis; Kinetic modelling; Miscanthus; Furfural
Funding
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013, 227248-2 (DIBANET)]
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This study investigated the kinetics of acid hydrolysis of the cellulose and hemicellulose in Miscanthus to produce levulinic acid and furfural under mild temperature and high acid concentration. Experiments were carried out in an 8 L-batch reactor with 9%-wt. biomass loading, acid concentrations between 0.10 and 0.53 M H2SO4, and at temperatures between 150 and 200 C. The concentrations of xylose, glucose, furfural, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and levulinic acid were used in two mechanistic kinetic models for the prediction of the performance of ideal continuous reactors for the optimisation of levulinic acid and the concurrent production of furfural. A two-stage arrangement was found to maximise furfural in the first reactor (PFR - 185 degrees C, 0.5 M H2SO4, 27.3%-mol). A second stage leads to levulinic acid yields between 58% and 72%-mol at temperatures between 160 and 200 degrees C. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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