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ArticleChemSusChem2025

Enhanced Production of Furfural via Methanolysis of Wood Biomass with HCl Gas.

A Topias Kilpinen, Neptun Yousefi, Eero Kontturi

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Article in ChemSusChem, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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A Topias KilpinenDepartment of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16300, Aalto, FI-00076, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4379-7907
Neptun YousefiDepartment of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16300, Aalto, FI-00076, Finland.
Eero KontturiDepartment of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16300, Aalto, FI-00076, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1690-5288

Funding

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 869993
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study explores the production of furfural, xylose and methylxylosides through the methanolysis of wood flour using anhydrous HCl gas. The process involves methanolysis of wood flour with HCl gas under pressure to generate methylxylosides, which are subsequently converted to xylose and furfural via autohydrolysis in a Parr batch reactor system. The methanolysis was conducted in temperature-controlled HCl gas reactor employing 24 h reaction time and 50 % methanol content in wood flour. During the methanolysis step with HCl gas, 65 % of the available xylan in wood flour was converted to water-soluble methylxylosides, xylose, xylooligosaccharides (XO) and water-soluble methyl xylooligosaccharides (MXO). Methanolysis filtrates were then autohydrolyzed with Parr 50 mL batch reactor system to xylose and furfural in two different pH values at 180 °C. The highest furfural yield of 91 % from methanolysis filtrate was achieved with pH 1.2 and 25 min reaction time.

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AlcoholysisBiomass conversionHemicellulose degradationPlatform chemicals

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PMID39298662
PMCPMC11789968

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