Conversion of Xylose to Furfuryl Alcohol and 2-Methylfuran in a Continuous Fixed-Bed Reactor.
An efficient process was designed for the synthesis of furfuryl alcohol and 2-methylfuran from xylose using a continuous fixed-bed reactor over a catalyst combining Hβ zeolite and Cu/ZnO/Al2 O3 in γ-butyrolactone (GBL)/water as solvent. The cooperative effect of Hβ zeolite and GBL facilitated the dehydration of xylose and enhanced largely the furfural yield. The production of furfuryl alcohol and 2-methylfuran can be simply tuned by changing the hydrogenation temperature for furfural over the Cu/ZnO/Al2 O3 catalyst. The yield for furfuryl alcohol reached 87.2 % at 150 °C whereas a yield of 86.8 % was achieved for 2-methylfuran at 190 °C.
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, P.R. China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P.R. China.
Jinglei
J
Cui
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, P.R. China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P.R. China.
Jingjing
J
Tan
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, P.R. China.
Xiaojing
X
Cui
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, P.R. China. zhuyulei@sxicc.ac.cn.|Synfuels China Co. Ltd., Beijing, P.R. China. zhuyulei@sxicc.ac.cn.
Yulei
Y
Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, P.R. China.
Tiansheng
T
Deng
Synfuels China Co. Ltd., Beijing, P.R. China.
Guoqiang
G
Ding
State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, P.R. China.|Synfuels China Co. Ltd., Beijing, P.R. China.
Yongwang
Y
Li
D002384:Catalysis; D005663:Furans / Q000737:chemistry*; D013696:Temperature; D014994:Xylose / Q000737:chemistry*
D005663:Furans; C029060:2-methylfuran; D014994:Xylose; C012986:furfuryl alcohol
fixed-bed reactor; furfural; heterogeneous catalysis; xylose; γ-butyrolactone