Formic Acid-Based Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis for Green Fuel Production from Wet Waste Biomass and Renewable Excess Energy

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 5078-5086

  Albert, Jakob ^a   Jess, Andreas ^b   Kern, Christoph ^b   Pöhlmann, Ferdinand ^b   Glowienka, Kevin ^b   Wasserscheid, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass oxidation; Chemical energy storage; Electrolysis; Fischer Tropsch synthesis; Formic acid

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CATALYSTS; ELECTROLYSIS; FORMIC ACID; FUELS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; OXIDATION; SYNTHESIS GAS;

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES; BIOMASS GASIFICATION; CHEMICAL ENERGY; GREEN-FUEL PRODUCTION; HOMOGENEOUS CATALYST; MILD REACTION CONDITIONS; SELECTIVE OXIDATION; WATER ELECTROLYSIS;

FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84986223607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01531     Document Type: Article

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