Catalytic production of liquid fuels from biomass-derived oxygenated hydrocarbons: Catalytic coupling at multiple length scales

Catalysis Reviews - Science and Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 441-484

  Simonetti, Dante A ^a   Dumesic, James ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass conversion; Catalytic coupling; Chemical intermediates; Liquid fuels; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; BIOMASS CONVERSION; CATALYTIC COUPLING; CATALYTIC MATERIALS; CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; CATALYTIC PROCESS; CATALYTIC PROCESSING; CATALYTIC PRODUCTION; CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES; CONVERSION PROCESS; EQUILIBRIUM CONVERSION; HOMOGENEOUS CATALYST; HOMOGENEOUS REACTION; LENGTH SCALE; LIQUID-PHASE PROCESS; LIQUID-PHASE REACTION; MOLECULAR SCALE; NEW PROCESS; OXYGENATED HYDROCARBON; PHASE COUPLING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SEQUENTIAL REACTION; SIDE REACTIONS; SINGLE REACTOR;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMASS; COST REDUCTION; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUID FUELS; OPERATING COSTS; SURFACE REACTIONS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 70449556741     PISSN: 01614940     EISSN: 15205703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01614940903050626     Document Type: Review

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