Three factors, the ethanol “blend wall”, which limits its market as a transportation fuel, advances in production efficiency, and feedstock diversification could lead to excess ethanol at competitive prices. Those factors have already motivated a search for value-added derivatives, e.g., olefins, asymmetric amines. Siting small, low cost, flexible conversion facilities to process the ethanol at or near the fermentation plant could encourage the growth of an enterprise by decreasing the barriers to entry, by matching supply and demand, and by enhancing access to production incentives. This review discusses the technologies that might be employed by such ethanol conversion facilities to permit them to benefit from intensified processes that can operate without using large pressures or large temperature gradients typically employed in conventional, large scale facilities.

Process intensification facilitates producing renewable building block chemicals from ethanol

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