Issue 25, 2012
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RSC Advances

Production of value-added chemicals from bio-oil via acid catalysis coupled with liquid–liquid extraction†

Xun Hu,a   Daniel Mourant,a   Richard Gunawan,a   Liping Wu,a   Yi Wang,a   Caroline Lievensa  and  Chun-Zhu Li*a  

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a Fuels and Energy Technology Institute, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
E-mail: chun-zhu.li@curtin.edu.au
Fax: (+) 618 9266 1138
Tel: (+) 618 9266 1131

Abstract

Sugar/sugar derivatives in bio-oil can be effectively separated from aromatics via water/chloroform extraction. Subsequent acid-treatment in methanol converts the sugars into levulinic acid/ester and the sugar derivatives into fuel additives. Further extraction with CH2Cl2/CHCl3 could efficiently separate methyl levulinate and levulinic acid from other products.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2RA21597G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Jul 2012
Accepted
19 Aug 2012
First published
20 Aug 2012

RSC Adv., 2012,2, 9366-9370

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Production of value-added chemicals from bio-oil via acid catalysis coupled with liquid–liquid extraction

X. Hu, D. Mourant, R. Gunawan, L. Wu, Y. Wang, C. Lievens and C. Li, RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 9366 DOI: 10.1039/C2RA21597G

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