Novel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment.

ABSTRACT: Decarbonizing the transportation sector is critical to achieving global climate change mitigation. Although biofuels will play an important role in conventional gasoline and diesel applications, bioderived solutions are particularly important in jet fuels and lubricants, for which no other viable renewable alternatives exist. Producing compounds for jet fuel and lubricant base oil applications often requires upgrading fermentation products, such as alcohols and ketones, to reach the appropriate molecular-weight range. Ketones possess both electrophilic and nucleophilic functionality, which allows them to be used as building blocks similar to alkenes and aromatics in a petroleum refining complex. Here, we develop a method for selectively upgrading biomass-derived alkyl methyl ketones with >

SUBMITTER: Balakrishnan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4485133 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature