Conversion of biomass to biofuels and life cycle assessment: a review

AI Osman, N Mehta, AM Elgarahy, A Al-Hinai… - Environmental chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
The global energy demand is projected to rise by almost 28% by 2040 compared to current
levels. Biomass is a promising energy source for producing either solid or liquid fuels …

Lignocellulose biomass pyrolysis for bio-oil production: A review of biomass pre-treatment methods for production of drop-in fuels

R Kumar, V Strezov, H Weldekidan, J He… - … and sustainable energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bio-oil upgrading can be achieved mainly via three types of methods that are biomass pre-
treatment, catalytic upgrading and downstream bio-oil upgrading. The article aim is to review …

Progress of the applications of bio-oil

X Hu, M Gholizadeh - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Bio-oil is considered a renewable feedstock for the production of energy, fuels, chemicals
and carbon materials. These specifically include the direct combustion of bio-oil as a boiler …

Fates of chemical elements in biomass during its pyrolysis

WJ Liu, WW Li, H Jiang, HQ Yu - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Biomass is increasingly perceived as a renewable resource rather than as an organic solid
waste today, as it can be converted to various chemicals, biofuels, and solid biochar using …

Thermochemical production of bio-oil: A review of downstream processing technologies for bio-oil upgrading, production of hydrogen and high value-added products

R Kumar, V Strezov - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Bio-oil produced from biomass pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction is considered as the
most sustainable alternative for depleting fossil fuels. However, the poor bio-oil properties …

Continuous hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass: A critical review

D Castello, TH Pedersen, LA Rosendahl - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of biomass is emerging as an effective technology to
efficiently valorize different types of (wet) biomass feedstocks, ranging from lignocellulosics …

Catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of algae and upgrading of biocrude: A critical review

D Xu, G Lin, S Guo, S Wang, Y Guo, Z **g - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of algae has emerged as a
promising technology for producing liquid bio-oil to meet increasing energy demands and …

Transportation fuels from biomass fast pyrolysis, catalytic hydrodeoxygenation, and catalytic fast hydropyrolysis

TMH Dabros, MZ Stummann, M Høj, PA Jensen… - Progress in Energy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This review presents and discusses the progress in combining fast pyrolysis and catalytic
hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) to produce liquid fuel from solid, lignocellulosic biomass. Fast …

Coke formation during thermal treatment of bio-oil

X Hu, Z Zhang, M Gholizadeh, S Zhang, CH Lam… - Energy & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bio-oil is a mixture of organics produced from pyrolysis of biomass. The organics in bio-oil
serve as the feedstock for the production of hydrogen, chemicals, biofuels, and carbon …

Recent research progress on bio‐oil conversion into bio‐fuels and raw chemicals: a review

B Valle, A Remiro, N García‐Gómez… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in lignocellulosic biomass valorization for producing fuels and
commodities (olefins and BTX aromatics) are gathered in this paper, with a focus on the …