Recent advances in catalytic conversion of biomass to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and 2, 5-dimethylfuran

Haiyong Wang, Changhui Zhu, Dan Li, Qiying Liu, Jin Tan, Chenguang Wang, Chiliu Cai and Longlong Ma

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019, vol. 103, issue C, 227-247

Abstract: With the growing shortage of fossil energy and the increasing of concerns over global climate changes and environmental problems have driven the development of alternative energy sources. Recently, great interest has been oriented towards the development of sustainable resources, especially the utilization of lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable and the most abundant source of biomass originating from plant photosynthesis in nature. Catalytic conversion of renewable cellulosic biomass can produce a series of compounds such as 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) which are important platform compounds and ideal renewable alternative to fossil fuels. To obtain the renowned bio-based platform molecules, various catalysts and reaction systems have been used in the past decade years. To fully understand current biomass to HMF and DMF development, it is necessary to have an overview and comparison of different homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. The reaction systems also exhibit a remarkable impact on the yield and distribution of products with different catalysts. General trends and future research directions of using biomass for HMF, DMF production are also discussed systematically.

Keywords: HMF; DMF; Catalyst; Sugar; Biomass; Reaction system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.12.010

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