Sustaining the Transition from a Petrobased to a Biobased Chemical Industry with Flow Chemistry

[en] In the current context of transitioning to more sustainable chemical processes, the upgrading of biobased platform molecules (i.e., the chemical transformation of widely available low molecular weight entities from biomass) is attracting significant attention, in particular when combined with enabling continuous flow conditions. The success of this combination is largely due to the ability to explore new process conditions and the perspective of facilitating seamless scalability while maintaining a small overall footprint. This review considers representative continuous flow processes which utilize a selection of currently popular platform molecules that target industrially relevant building blocks, including (a) commodity chemicals, (b) specialty and fine chemicals, and (c) fuels and fuel additives.

Research center :

Center for Integrated Technology and Organic Synthesis

Disciplines :

Chemistry

Author, co-author :

Gerardy, Romaric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > CITOS

Morodo Martinez, Romain ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > CITOS

Estager, Julien; Certech

Luis, Patricia; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL

Debecker, Damien; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL

Monbaliu, Jean-Christophe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > CITOS

Language :

English

Title :

Sustaining the Transition from a Petrobased to a Biobased Chemical Industry with Flow Chemistry

Publication date :

February 2019

Journal title :

Topics in Current Chemistry

ISSN :

2365-0869

eISSN :

2364-8961

Publisher :

Springer

Volume :

377

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Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41061-018-0222-3

Funders :

FEDER - Fonds Européen de Développement Régional [BE]

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