Amending the Structure of Renewable Carbon from Biorefinery Waste-Streams for Energy Storage Applications.

ABSTRACT: Biorefineries produce impure sugar waste streams that are being underutilized. By converting this waste to a profitable by-product, biorefineries could be safeguarded against low oil prices. We demonstrate controlled production of useful carbon materials from the waste concentrate via hydrothermal synthesis and carbonization. We devise a pathway to producing tunable, porous spherical carbon materials by modeling the gross structure formation and developing an understanding of the pore formation mechanism utilizing simple reaction principles. Compared to a simple hydrothermal synthesis from sugar concentrate, emulsion-based synthesis results in hollow spheres with abundant microporosity. In contrast, conventional hydrothermal synthesis produces solid beads with micro and mesoporosity. All t

SUBMITTER: Ho HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5974299 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature