Thermoconversion

Czernik, S. French, R. Feik, C. Chomet, Ev Hydrogen by catalytic steam reforming of liquid byproducts from biomass thermoconversion processes, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 2002,41,4209. 

Jang et al. [131] reported high electron affinity perfluorobiphenyl-substituted PPV 78. This polymer was synthesized by the thermoconversion method. Single-layer PLED ITO/ 78/Al showed 64 times higher EL efficiency than that fabricated with unsubstituted PPV 1. A further (380-fold) increase of efficiency was achieved in a bilayer device ITO/1/78/A1. 

The first realization of this approach was reported by the Cambridge group, which synthesized copolymers 80 containing phenylene vinylene and dialkoxy(phenylene vinylene) units by the thermoconversion method [23,134], A 30-fold improvement in EL efficiency was observed for these copolymers compared with PPV 1 or MEH-PPV 13 devices fabricated in the same configuration (Chart 2.15). 

The reactor network modeling provides a fair understanding of the biomass thermoconversion in the complex flows. 

S. Czernik, R. French, C. Feik et al.. Hydrogen by catalytic steam reforming of byproducts from biomass thermoconversion, Indus. Engin. Chem. Res. 41, 4209 215, Aug. 21 (2002). 

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