THF Co-Solvent Biomass Fractionation to Catalytic Fuel Precursors with High Yields Award Number: DE-EE0007006 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Bioenergy Technologies Office Date: 08/13/2015 Location(s): CA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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August 13, 2015
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THF Co-Solvent Biomass Fractionation to Catalytic Fuel Precursors with High Yields
Award Number: DE-EE0007006
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Bioenergy Technologies Office
Date: 08/13/2015
Location(s): CA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the University of California Riverside (UCR) to advance transformative Tetrahydrofuran (THR) co-solvent technology (Co-Solv) to achieve high yields of fuel precursors (FPs) such as furfural (FF), 5-hyroxymethylfurfural (HMF), or levulinic acid (LA) compatible with heterogeneous catalytic conversion to fungible fuel blend stocks and to capitalize on its extremely high lignin extraction to produce valuable co-products to increase process revenues.