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Not much has changed since the 2015 study: Corncob prices still dominate the base price of furfural
Palm Biomass to Furfural
Date palm trees produce huge amount of agricultural wastes in the form of dry leaves, stems, pits, seeds etc. (Image: bioenergyconsult.com)
DalinYebo has found palm residues to be a suitable feedstock for furfural production!
Australia: Sugar set for ‘Energycane’ Reinvention
Sugarcane Fields at Shongweni – South Africa (Image: DalinYebo)
Gene-editing sugarcane for use in renewable energy and bio-plastics could help secure the industry’s future.
Biomass Gasification, the Lesser Known Renewable…
WWII car with woodgas generator (Bundesarchive, Germany)
Biomass gasification technology is over a century old with its implementations in power production dating back as early as 1878.
The technology utilizes inclompete combustion of organic materials to produce a unique gas consisting of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, hydrogen and water, referred to as Producer Gas. This Producer gas can be used for the production of biofuels or power generation through the firing of a gas engine, gas turbine or steam turbine boiler systems.
The more widely used application for the technology internationally, is for biofuel production, due to the greater commercial viability of the application in developed energy markets such as Europe. This use for the technology gained significant focus in Germany during World War 2, when the Nazi government hoped to gain greater independence from the international oil market due to international fuel sanctions placed on the war-faring nation at the time.
The use of the technology gained further favour from 1970 to 1980, when rising fuel prices forced the global market to place increased focus on the development of alternative fuel sources. With the decrease in global oil prices following the 1980’s, biomass gasfication lost favour in the international energy market with little technological or market development taking place.
It was only until the turn of the milenium, when global trends in environmental awareness and carbon emission reduction was placing strain on the international energy sector and international oil prices began to increase sharply, that biomass gasification regained a foothold in the market. (Ref.: Extract from EnviroTech Investor, 1 Dec 2010)
DalinYebo’s View:
Again and again we see organisations (Universities or private corporations) promoting “renewable” process technology, that has combustion of biomass at its core, with no consideration given to the fact that combustion generates greenhouse gases.
Biomass captures CO2, so don’t release it!
At DalinYebo, we focus on and support organsiations who wish to retain the hemicellulose fraction (C5 ‘sugars’/molecules) of biomass into value-added, bio-based products, without destroying it, i.e. releasing Greenhouse Gases
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NB: The above extract of the article below is posted ‘as is’, i.e. it has not been validated nor is its re-blogging an endorsement by DalinYebo
Pulp Miller’s Strategy: Integrate Biochemicals (Furfural)
Sappi announced further progress in the development of its biorefinery capacity with the confirmation that it will construct a demonstration plant to further scale up its novel Xylex® technology for the production of Xylitol and Furfural (Image: thepaperstory.co.za, Sappi Ngodwana).
Pulp Mills are an ideal source of large amounts of ‘free pentoses’, from which furfural is made.
Finally [1], the paper industry is moving into the furfural biorefining space. Great News!
Plastics from sugar: the end to petrochemicals?
Research Success Story about EnzOx2 (Image: enzox2.eu).
The EnzOx2 Project is a Research & Innovation Action funded by the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking, …
… a Public-Private Partnership between the EU (under H2020 framework programme) and the Bio-based Industries Consortium. Twelve participants from five European countries will join efforts for the sustainable production of chemical building blocks and other added value products from plant biomass using enzymatic technologies. read more…
Additional Posts
Furfural Market on the Move: Double Digit Growth
Image: DalinYebo.com/Markets
Independent analysts seem to agree with DalinYebo’s view on the furfural market.
A Renaissance: Furfural for Rocket Fuel
A Well Kept Secret: How To Add (More) Value To Biomass
There is an amazing variety of products in which furfural naturally occurs or that can be made from furfural and are used in e.g. automotive industry, agriculture, pharma, etc.
Furfural is one of the oldest chemicals made from biomass. It has been commercially made since 1922 and is today recognised as one of the most import biobased chemical building blocks
Beyond “Electricity From Sugarcane”
An App Knows if a Beer Has Gone Stale
The team from the Complutense University of Madrid has developed a simple and inexpensive method to measure if the beer is stale.
