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Production of Liquid Hydrocarbons from Biomass
Author(s) -
Metzger Jürgen O.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200502895
Subject(s) - biomass (ecology) , renewable energy , liquid fuel , sorbitol , waste management , environmental science , renewable fuels , renewable resource , sugar , biofuel , pulp and paper industry , process engineering , chemistry , engineering , organic chemistry , oceanography , geology , electrical engineering , combustion
Sugar in the gas tank?! Biomass is the only practical source of renewable liquid fuel (see picture). In research worldwide, new technologies are being developed for the generation of liquid fuels from renewable resources. One example is the reduction of polyols, such as sorbitol, which can be obtained from carbohydrates, into alkanes in an aqueous‐phase reforming process.