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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials
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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials

by Rafael Luque, Alina Mariana Balu
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 45m
English
CRC Press
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22 Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials
1 kg starch
20 L H
2
O
20 L EtOH
Expansion
Gelatinization
140°C, 1.1 Atm, stir, 2 h
Retrogradation
5°C
Solvent exchange
stirring, filtration
Drying
50°C, vacuum, 24 h
1st stage carbonization
70°C–170°C, 12 h
2nd stage carbonization
170°C
900°C, 23 h
20 g acid
catalyst
Pyrolysis
CO
2
, CO, H
2
O
CO
2
, CO, CH
4
H
2
CO, H
2
O
ExpansionDryingPyrolysis
Starch in flour
Porous gel block
Mesoporous starch
Starbon
Granule swollen in hot water
and leaching amylose
St
arch
water
gel
Retrograded starch gel
Heating in water
Cooling at 5°C
FIGURE 2.9 Diagrammatic representation of the main processing steps in the production of st ...
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ISBN: 9781466553392