Eco-Friendly Catalytic Synthesis of Top Value Chemicals from Valorization of Cellulose Waste.

ABSTRACT: The total amount of cellulose from paper, wood, food, and other human activity waste produced in the EU is in the order of 900 million tons per year. This resource represents a sizable opportunity to produce renewable chemicals and energy. This paper reports, unprecedently in the literature, the usage of four different urban wastes such as cigarette butts, sanitary pant diapers, newspapers, and soybean peels as cellulose fonts to produce valuable industrial intermediates such as levulinic acid (LA), 5-acetoxymethyl-2-furaldehyde (AMF), 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF), and furfural. The process is accomplished by the hydrothermal treatment of cellulosic waste using both Brønsted and Lewis acid catalysts such as CH₃COOH (2.5-5.7 M), H₃PO₄ (15%), and Sc(OTf)

SUBMITTER: Losito O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10053711 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature