TY - JOUR
T1 - Solvent system for effective near-term production of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) with potential for long-term process improvement
AU - Motagamwala, Ali Hussain
AU - Huang, Kefeng
AU - Maravelias, Christos T.
AU - Dumesic, James A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research under Award Number DE-SC0018409. We thank Brandon Bolton, Tania L Class Martinez and Rachel Hermanson for their help in performing fructose and glucose dehydration experiments. We thank Hochan Chang for help in performing fructose solubility studies. We thank Dr. David Johnston at USDA-ARS-ERRC for providing the HFCS model to determine industrially relevant carbohydrate concentrations and Dr. Esben Taarning at Haldor Topsøe for providing Sn-b used in this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Production of renewable chemicals to mitigate the deleterious effects of greenhouse gas emissions requires technologies that are cost-competitive with the fossil-fuel industry, require low capital investment, and produce high-value products. We report production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a valuable platform molecule from biomass-derived carbohydrates at high yields (>90%) and with excellent carbon balance (>95%) using an inexpensive solvent system composed of acetone and water. We demonstrate that HMF, a thermally unstable molecule, can be separated from this low boiling solvent system with high recovery (96%) and purity (∼99%). We show that fructose is selectively dehydrated in this solvent system from a mixture of glucose and fructose, a property that can be leveraged to integrate the proposed process with current processes for the production of high fructose corn syrup. Techno-economic analysis indicates that utilizing fructose as feedstock leads to low investment (16 MM$) and produces HMF at a minimum selling price (MSP) of $1710 per ton. The MSP can be further reduced to $1460 per ton by changing the feedstock to glucose.
AB - Production of renewable chemicals to mitigate the deleterious effects of greenhouse gas emissions requires technologies that are cost-competitive with the fossil-fuel industry, require low capital investment, and produce high-value products. We report production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a valuable platform molecule from biomass-derived carbohydrates at high yields (>90%) and with excellent carbon balance (>95%) using an inexpensive solvent system composed of acetone and water. We demonstrate that HMF, a thermally unstable molecule, can be separated from this low boiling solvent system with high recovery (96%) and purity (∼99%). We show that fructose is selectively dehydrated in this solvent system from a mixture of glucose and fructose, a property that can be leveraged to integrate the proposed process with current processes for the production of high fructose corn syrup. Techno-economic analysis indicates that utilizing fructose as feedstock leads to low investment (16 MM$) and produces HMF at a minimum selling price (MSP) of $1710 per ton. The MSP can be further reduced to $1460 per ton by changing the feedstock to glucose.
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U2 - 10.1039/c9ee00447e
DO - 10.1039/c9ee00447e
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069042572
SN - 1754-5692
VL - 12
SP - 2212
EP - 2222
JO - Energy and Environmental Science
JF - Energy and Environmental Science
IS - 7
ER -