Catalytic conversion of renewable biomass resources to fuels and chemicals

Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 79-100

  Serrano Ruiz, Juan Carlos ^a   West, Ryan M ^a   Dumesic, James A ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

bifunctional catalysts; catalytic coupling; deoxygenation; heterogeneous catalysts; lactic acid; levulinic acid

Indexed keywords

BI-FUNCTIONAL CATALYSTS; CATALYTIC COUPLING; DEOXYGENATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST; LEVULINIC ACID;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMASS; BODY FLUIDS; CHEMICALS; FOSSIL FUELS; LACTIC ACID; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXYGEN;

CATALYSTS;

BIOFUEL; LACTIC ACID; LEVULINIC ACID; OXYGEN;

BIOMASS; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; REVIEW;

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CATALYSIS; LACTIC ACID; LEVULINIC ACIDS; OXYGEN;

EID: 77956354825     PISSN: 19475438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-073009-100935     Document Type: Article

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