Enhanced Production of Furfural via Methanolysis of Wood Biomass with HCl Gas
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2025-02-01
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7
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ChemSusChem, Volume 18, issue 3
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This study explores the production of furfural, xylose and methylxylosides through the methanolysis of wood flour using anhydrous HCl gas. The process involves methanolysis of wood flour with HCl gas under pressure to generate methylxylosides, which are subsequently converted to xylose and furfural via autohydrolysis in a Parr batch reactor system. The methanolysis was conducted in temperature-controlled HCl gas reactor employing 24 h reaction time and 50 % methanol content in wood flour. During the methanolysis step with HCl gas, 65 % of the available xylan in wood flour was converted to water-soluble methylxylosides, xylose, xylooligosaccharides (XO) and water-soluble methyl xylooligosaccharides (MXO). Methanolysis filtrates were then autohydrolyzed with Parr 50 mL batch reactor system to xylose and furfural in two different pH values at 180 °C. The highest furfural yield of 91 % from methanolysis filtrate was achieved with pH 1.2 and 25 min reaction time.Description
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Alcoholysis, Biomass conversion, Hemicellulose degradation, Platform chemicals
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Kilpinen, A T, Yousefi, N & Kontturi, E 2025, ' Enhanced Production of Furfural via Methanolysis of Wood Biomass with HCl Gas ', ChemSusChem, vol. 18, no. 3, e202401291 . https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202401291