Scaling Up Hydrogenation Processes for Biomass Conversion

One of the most promising pathways to biomass-based, sustainable chemicals is the sugar platform that includes conversions of monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides, and their derivates, via biochemical and thermochemical processes. Hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis reactions are of parti...

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Published in:Chemical Engineering 2022-12, Vol.129 (12), p.37-40
Main Authors: Epp, Konstantin, Keller, Wolfgang, Labusch, Marc, Rojan, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomass
Carbon
Carbonyl groups
Carbonyls
Chemical engineering
Conversion
Disaccharides
Feasibility studies
Hydrogen
Hydrogenation
Hydrogenolysis
Laboratories
Monosaccharides
Optimization
Polysaccharides
Raw materials
Reactors
Reynolds number
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Summary:One of the most promising pathways to biomass-based, sustainable chemicals is the sugar platform that includes conversions of monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides, and their derivates, via biochemical and thermochemical processes. Hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis reactions are of particular significance amongst those thermochemical pathways. Nature produces many different unsaturated products, including C=C double bonds, in carbonyl groups in the structural aldoses and ketoses of cellulose and hemicellulose. This article describes a practical approach to respond to these challenges by applying an integrated development and optimization strategy beginning at laboratory scale, through piloting and demonstration scale, before building a commercial plant. Guidelines on how to approach specific hydrogenation problems, concepts and tools for the design, development and scaleup of catalytic hydrogenation processes are discussed.
ISSN:0009-2460
1945-368X