One major hindrance to biomass deployment, and one which only benefitted from an unbalanced development, is refining into the different fractions which have a market value. Indeed, most products obtained from oil refining owe to the level of sophistication and optimisation reached by energy-integrated fractioning (mostly, distillation) networks. The separation stage of microalgal and lignocellulosic biomass could be addressed by using a converging approach employing a multipurpose solvent which may be adapted by one single and simple operation to different extractions. Such a single-solvent separation approach would lend itself to scaleup to a solvent-integrated fractionation network that might help mimicking the success story of the oil refining industry.
Toward an efficient biorefining of microalgae and biomass alike. A unit operating view on how to mimick the optimisation history of the crude oil refining industry / Luisa Di, Paola; Bravi, Marco; Cicci, Agnese. - In: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING TRANSACTIONS. - ISSN 2283-9216. - ELETTRONICO. - 43:(2015), pp. 1321-1326. [DOI:10.3303/CET1543221]
Toward an efficient biorefining of microalgae and biomass alike. A unit operating view on how to mimick the optimisation history of the crude oil refining industry
BRAVI, Marco;CICCI, AGNESE
2015
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One major hindrance to biomass deployment, and one which only benefitted from an unbalanced development, is refining into the different fractions which have a market value. Indeed, most products obtained from oil refining owe to the level of sophistication and optimisation reached by energy-integrated fractioning (mostly, distillation) networks. The separation stage of microalgal and lignocellulosic biomass could be addressed by using a converging approach employing a multipurpose solvent which may be adapted by one single and simple operation to different extractions. Such a single-solvent separation approach would lend itself to scaleup to a solvent-integrated fractionation network that might help mimicking the success story of the oil refining industry.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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