Biomass feedstocks for renewable fuel production: a review of the impacts of feedstock and pretreatment on the yield and product distribution of fast pyrolysis bio-oils and vapors

Carpenter, Daniel; Westover, Tyler; Czernik, Stefan; Jablonski, Whitney

doi:10.1039/c3gc41631c

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Biomass feedstocks for renewable fuel production: a review of the impacts of feedstock and pretreatment on the yield and product distribution of fast pyrolysis bio-oils and vapors

Published in Green Chemistry • Nov 11, 2013

Authors:

Daniel Carpenter

Tyler Westover

Stefan Czernik

Abstract

Renewable transportation fuels from biomass have the potential to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and diversify global fuel supplies. Thermal conversion by fast pyrolysis converts up to 75% of the starting plant material (and its energy content) to a bio-oil intermediate suitable for u...

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Raw material

Biomass (ecology)

Renewable energy

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