title: Furfural production by 'acidic steam stripping' of lignocellulose.
abstract: Furfural and acetic acid are produced with approximately 60 and 90 mol % yield, respectively, upon stripping bagasse with a gaseous stream of HCl/steam and condensing the effluent to water/furfural/acetic acid. The reaction kinetics is 1(st)  order in furfural and 0.5(th)  order in HCl. A process concept with full recycling of the reaction effluents is proposed to reduce the energy demand to <10 tonsteam  tonfurfural (-1) and facilitate the product recovery through a simple liquid/liquid separation of the condensate into a water-rich and a furfural-rich phase.
authors.affiliation: Shell Chemicals Europe B.V. Weena 70, 3012 CM Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
authors.forename: Jeroen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Buijtenen
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.forename: Leticia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Espinosa Alonso
authors.forename: Wouter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Spiering
authors.forename: Rob F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Polmans
authors.forename: Rene J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Haan
mesh_terms: D019342:Acetic Acid / Q000737:chemistry; D005662:Furaldehyde / Q000737:chemistry*; D006851:Hydrochloric Acid / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D008031:Lignin / Q000737:chemistry*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D014867:Water; C036909:lignocellulose; D008031:Lignin; D005662:Furaldehyde; D019342:Acetic Acid; D006851:Hydrochloric Acid
keywords: acetic acid; biomass; furfural; hydrolysis; lignocellulose