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Furfuryl Alcohol: Turing Softwood into Hardwood
Furfuryl alcohol is the main ingredient used for wood-modification processes like ‘kebonisation’.
Eco-friendly High Quality Resins (Wood Glues)
Overcoming the disadvantage of urea-formaldehyde treated wood Furfural and urea react in an acid catalysed medium. The aldehyde group of furfural undergoes condensation with two urea and link the two urea substrate with the release of a water molecule to form a pure...
Furan Derivatives: Useful treatment of life threatening diseases
Furan ring is an important pharmacophore in modern drug discovery Furan, which is made from furfural, is a heterocyclic organic compound, consisting of a five-membered aromatic ring with four carbon atoms and one oxygen. The class of compounds containing such rings...
Biorefining: The Low-risk Opportunities to Produce Furfural
Why it is not Rocket Science: The Masterkey to the Furfural Business We have previously reported on: The Masterkey to the furfural business and Why the production of furfural is not Rocket Science. Example Projects In the presentation below, we showcase the 1...
Pre-treatment of Feed: Furfural from Dried Distillers’ Grains
Paid4PreTreatment™: Smart integration of furfural production In July 2013, we reported on the potential that distiller's grain has for furfural production. The smart integration of furfural production into the mass and energy balance (The-Right-Balance™: in this case...
Roasted Coffee Smell
Furfuryl Mercaptan: The good smell of roasted coffee Although in concentrated form, furfuryl mercaptan is a foul smelling compound. In 1926 it was already patented as coffee’s main odor active compound. It is a furan molecule substituted with a sulfanylmethyl group...
Furfural Market Prices (2014)
Furfural is a B2B trade and market data is not easily available to market outsiders
Economy of Numbers vs. Economy of Scale
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable (Kenyan proverb). There is a strong case to be made for a co-operative, biobased economy in Africa .. .. and that therefore includes small, decentralised, rural production units, which form part of a greater supply chain. Africa...
Job Creation: Is the Low-hanging Fruit the Forbidden Fruit?
Biorefining: Create Shareholder Value or(/and) Jobs! The "Low-hanging Fruit" offers shareholders in the sugar or pulp & paper industry a low risk expansion opportunity into the future of bioenergy/biochemicals. The pulp & paper as well as the sugar industries...
Avocado Furan: Natural Insecticide
The avocadofurans are a family of natural products isolated from avocado (Persia)
Bioenergy crops could store more carbon in soil
Bioenergy crops lets much more carbon accumulate in the soil.
Whiskey Science: Smell the Furfural
The ratio of furfural to 5-HMF can be used to determine whether a whiskey was aged in a cask or not.
Levulinic Acid from Cow Dung
Agricultural waste, cow dung, was used as feedstock for the production of a high value–added chemical levulinic acid (LA).
Two More Factsheets: Biobased Products
There are already a wide range of commercially available bio-based products on the market offering a diverse range of functionalities.
Why should the public sector purchase them?
Factsheet #1: What are biobased products?
Sustainability of bio-based products is dependent on multiple factors, such as sourcing of feedstock, design of the production process, adequate choice of disposal option, etc.
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CO2-based chemicals business case
The potential to use greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) as a feedstock for producing new materials is a hot topic currently and could help to develop a true circular economy. … DalinYebo's insight: Direct production of chemicals through the transformation of CO2:...
Carbon-Carbon Coupling Reactions of Furan and Furfural (liquid transportation fuels)
Abstract: Upgrading of furan and small oxygenates obtained from the decomposition of cellulosic materials via formation of carbon-carbon bonds is critical to effective conversion of biomass to liquid transportation fuels. Simulation-driven molecular level...
Life after Nemacur
The popular nematicide might be gone, but a number of products are available that offer nematode control. ... DalinYebo's insight: Furfural-based nematicides work well on turf (also see ) See on www.golfcourseindustry.com, via Scoop.it - Furfural and its many...
Biochemical Conversion of Biomass
Biochemical conversion of biomass involves use of bacteria, microorganisms and enzymes to breakdown biomass into gaseous or liquid fuels, such as biogas or bioethanol. The most popular biochemical technologies are anaerobic digestion (or biomethanation) and...
Bio-based Chemicals Getting Unexpected Boost from Shale Gas Boom
Bio (plant)-based chemicals are the unexpected beneficiaries of the North American shale gas boom .. Sugars, glycerin and other plant-derived feedstocks are emerging as economically competitive starting materials for a range of commodity chemicals, in part, because of...
Efficient Solid Acid Catalyst for the Production of Furfurals
5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural from biomass-derived mono- and disaccharides
Molybdenum Carbide: Deoxygenation Catalyst for Converting Furfural to 2-Methylfuran
Highly selective deoxygenation catalyst for converting furfural to 2-methylfuran.
Furan-based pyrethroids against the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti
Synthesis of the Insecticide Prothrin from 5-(Chloromethyl)furfural (CMF)
Lignocellulosic Biomass into a Jet Fuel
A key challenge in the biofuels landscape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels other than corn ethanol and vegetable oil-based biodiesel—into the transportation pool. DalinYebo's insight: Furfural has a ±20% higher BTU content than Ethanol! It is a rocket fuel....
ReBlogged
articles by OTHER authors that WE find interesting and share it here.
Carving out a future for biomass conversion to jet fuel
Proposed strategies to convert lignocellulose to aviation fuels have underused components, preventing their commercialisation.
One-pot conversion of furfural into 1,5-pentanediol (used e.g. in polyurethanes)
One-pot selective conversion of highly concentrated furfural to 1,5-pentanediol (1,5-PeD).. was carried out over Rh-added Ir-ReOx/SiO2 catalysts through two-step reaction temperatures.”… DalinYebo's insight: Reduced to one production step: This most probably opens...
Malaysia: The Next Bioplastic Destination?
Malaysia is keen on valorizing its significant volume of palm tree biomass into biobased chemicals and bioplastics. Malaysia reportedly produces around 80 million tons/year of biomass waste. DalinYebo's insight: We think that furfural and its many by-products could...
Forecasted Bioplastics Industry Growth
The global bio-plastics industry is expected to witness significant growth.
Cellulose – Biobased Platform for Chemicals
Cellulose is an organic compound, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β(1→4) linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is an important structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants, many forms of algae and...
Biomasa, bagazo y electricidad renovable en Honduras
Co-generation of Electricity from Bagasse El bagazo es la biomasa para producir electricidad de más importancia en América Latina hasta ahora. Ejemplo en Honduras. DalinYebo's insight: ift.co.za/bagasse adds value to bagasse prior to it being burnt. For smaller mills,...
Global demand for bioplastics will rise 19% per year to 950,000 …
according to a new study on “World Bioplastics”
Market outlook: Industrial biotechnology moves up a gear
Fast moving bio-plastics
Global demand for biobased resins to rise 19% per year through 2017
Robust growth in demand is expected in virtually all geographic markets
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