A Review on the Transformation of Furfural Residue for Value-Added Products

Yong Sun, Zhi Wang, Yuyingnan Liu, Xianghui Meng, Jingbo Qu, Changyu Liu and Bin Qu
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Yong Sun: Department of Agriculture Biological Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150030, China
Zhi Wang: Department of Agriculture Biological Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150030, China
Yuyingnan Liu: Department of Agriculture Biological Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150030, China
Xianghui Meng: Department of Agriculture Biological Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150030, China
Jingbo Qu: Department of Agriculture Biological Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150030, China
Changyu Liu: Department of Agriculture Biological Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150030, China
Bin Qu: Department of Agriculture Biological Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin 150030, China

Energies, 2019, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: As a by-product of lignocellulosic depolymerization for furfural production, furfural residue (FR) is composed of residual cellulose, lignin, humic acid, and other small amounts of materials, which have high reuse value. However, due to the limitation of furfural production scale and production technology, the treatment of FR has many problems such as high yield, concentrated stacking, strong acidity, and difficult degradation. This leads to the limited treatment methods and high treatment cost of furfural residue. At present, most of the furfural enterprises can only be piled up at will, buried in soil, or directly burned. The air, soil, and rivers are polluted and the ecological balance is destroyed. Therefore, how to deal with furfural residue reasonably needs to be solved. In this review, value-added products for furfural residue conversion are described in detail in the fields of soil culture, catalytic hydrolysis, thermal decomposition, and porous adsorption. The future studies reporting the FR to convert value-added products could find guidance from this review to achieve specific goals.

Keywords: furfural residue; value-added products; waste utilization; lignocellulose (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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