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ChemSusChem
; 6(11): 2132-6, 2013 Nov.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23908004
RESUMO
Furfural and acetic acid are produced with approximately 60 and 90â 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) â order in furfural and 0.5(th) â order in HCl. A process concept with full recycling of the reaction effluents is proposed to reduce the energy demand to <10â 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.