The production of fuels from biomass may be accomplished by its  conversion to small fragments, the selective removal of oxygen from  carbohydrates, and the conversion of small intermediates into larger  hydrocarbons via carbon-carbon bond formation reactions. We will discuss  the operation of reactors that combine upstream metal-based exothermic  volatilization of biomass with zeolite-based deoxygenation and C-C bond  formation in millisecond contact times thereby avoiding solid  carbonaceous by-products. The related development of inorganic molecular  catalysts required for facile heat and mass transfer and mathematical  models to describe process chemistry will also be presented.

Conversion of biomass to fuels in autothermal, short contact time reactors

244th National Meeting (2012)

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