The US Department of Energy is supporting a project to advance transformative Co-Solvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic Fractionation to achieve high yield production of “drop-in” oxygenated liquid fuels from poplar wood.

The project also aims at high yield co-conversion of C5 and C6 sugars directly to MF and DMF fuels in only two reaction steps directly from biomass. Plus, high yield solubilization, depolymerization, and conversion of biomass lignin to liquid fuels in only two reaction steps. Plus, the team set a goal of developing extraction, separation, and recovery techniques to enable integration of the three critical processes for a CELF-based biorefinery.

Charles Wyman and the R&D team prepped these illuminating slides for an overview of the project’s progress and promise given at the 2017 DOE Project Peer Review meeting.

Catalytic Fuel Precursors with High Yields: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to THF Co-Solvent Biomass Fractionation