AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

Optimisation of the reaction parameters in a batch reactor and a CSTR for the recovery of phenol from hydrothermal biomass liquefaction

by Daniel Forchheim




Institution: Universität Karlsruhe
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Year: 2014
Keywords: Lignin liquefaction, supercritical water, ethanol, phenol, continuous process
Record ID: 1118035
Full text PDF: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/documents/3176759


Abstract

This work deals with the hydrothermal liquefaction of lignin. The focus laid on the discovery of the main reaction pathways within the depolymerisation of lignin-macromolecules and the discovery of bottleneck reactions. This was achieved by literature study and experimental work in both batch and continuous reactor. Modelling of the formal kinetics of the discovered reactions facilitated the evaluation of experimental results.