Catalytic Processes for Production of alpha, omega-diols from Lignocellulosic Biomass Award Number: DE-EE0006878 CX(s) Applied: B3.6, B5.15 Bioenergy Technologies Office Date: 01/14/2015 Location(s): WI Office(s): Golden Field Office
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January 14, 2015
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Catalytic Processes for Production of alpha, omega-diols from Lignocellulosic Biomass
Award Number: DE-EE0006878
CX(s) Applied: B3.6, B5.15
Bioenergy Technologies Office
Date: 01/14/2015
Location(s): WI
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the University of Wisconsin, Madison (UW) to develop an integrated and efficient process to produce high value chemicals, namely 1,5-pentanediol (1,5-PDO) and 1,6-hexanediol (1,6-HDO), from lignocellulosic biomass.
The proposed project activities would include experimental activities such as design and fabrication of flow reactors; design, synthesis, development and testing of metal catalysts; chromatographic analysis of adsorption/pervaporation; and theoretical activities such as economic analysis based on process simulations; and prediction of adsorption, phase equilibria and transport properties based on molecular dynamics simulations. Experimental activities would take place at one of three locations; UW-Madison’s dedicated lab facility in Madison, WI, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities’ (UMN) dedicated lab facility in Minneapolis, MN, and Argonne National Lab in Argonne, IL. The facilities where the proposed project would occur have been previously used for work that is similar to the activities included in the proposed project, therefore, no new or modified permits would be required, and no construction of new facilities or physical modifications to existing facilities would occur as a result of the proposed project.