Lignocellulosic biomass value-added products from

Value-Added Products from Lignocellulosic Biomass Pyrolysis... 

As can be seen from Figure 8.6, fast pyrolysis is the primary technology to convert lignocellulosic biomass into biooil, char, and gas. The biooil is feedstock for a subsequent biorefinery approach that aims to further process the biooil into a spectrum of value-added products. This elegant concept is further schematically presented in Figure 8.7. 

These processes involve a multistep transformation from the carbohydrate fraction to the value-added products which makes most of them far from commercialization. Hence, intensive efforts are stiU required to enable scale up of synthetic protocols developed on a lab-scale into industrial processes. Some of the current drawbacks might be overcome by the one-pot transformation of lignocellulose carbohydrates in value-added chemicals without isolation of the intermediate platform molecules (Delidovich et al., 2014). Moreover, nanoporous materials, such as acidic, basic or metallic catalysts (zeolites, mesoporous silicas, microporous/mesoporous carbons, resins, metal oxides, etc.), wUl play a crucial role in this biomass transformation (Wang and Xiao, 2015). 

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