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This book is a ""world first"", since the furfural industry has been traditionally secretive to the point of appearing shrouded in clouds of mystery. Even renowned encyclopedic works have published but scant and often erroneous information on the subject. Striking a healthy balance between theory and practice, the book leads the reader from reaction mechanisms and kinetics to the technology of making furfural by various old and new processes, using conventional raw materials or sulfite waste liquor. Detailed discussions of means of increasing the yield are of great chemical and technologi

Furfural. --- Furfural --- Ant oil, Artificial --- Artificial ant oil --- Bran oil --- Furaldehyde --- Furfuraldehyde --- Furfurly aldehyde --- Furfurol --- Furol --- Pyromucic aldehyde --- Aldehydes --- Furans --- Derivatives.

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A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to 2-furaldehyde. The chemical is produced commercially for industrial use in the production of resins abrasive wheels and refractories refining of lubrication oils and solvent recovery. Although 2-furaldehyde is present in many food items as a natural product or contaminant emphasis is placed on the more important risks to health that occur in occupational settings. Concerning presence in the environment the highest reported emissions are from the wood pulp industry which releases 2-furaldehyde predominant

Environmental health. --- Furfural -- Environmental effect of. --- Furfural -- Toxicology. --- Health risk assessment. --- Health Occupations --- Furans --- Aldehydes --- Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring --- Organic Chemicals --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Heterocyclic Compounds --- Furaldehyde --- Environmental Health

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Clay minerals are inexpensive and available materials with a wide range of applications (adsorbent, ion exchanger, support, catalyst, paper coating, ceramic, and pharmaceutical applications, among others). Clay minerals can be easily modified through acid/basic treatments, the insertion of bulky ions or pillars into the interlayer spacing, and acid treatment, improving their physicochemical properties.Considering their low cost and high availability, clay minerals display a relatively high specific surface area in such a way that they have a great potential to be used as catalytic supports, since they can disperse expensive active phases as noble metals on the porous structures of their surfaces. In addition, the low cost of these supports allows their implementation on an industrial scale more easily than other supports, which are only feasible at the laboratory scale. Hydrotalcites (considered as anionic or basic clays) are also inexpensive materials with a great potential to be used as catalysts, since their textural properties could also be modified easily through the insertion of anions in their interlayer spacing. In the same way, these hydrotalcites, formed by layered double hydroxides, can lead to their respective mixed oxides after thermal treatment. These mixed oxides are considered basic catalysts with a high surface area, so they can also be used as catalytic support.

Research & information: general --- Chemistry --- Inorganic chemistry --- propane dehydrogenation --- hierarchical microstructure --- reconstruction --- high selectivity --- excellent durability --- reduction atmosphere --- coke deposition --- meixnerite --- PtIn/Mg(Al)O/ZnO --- layered double hydroxides --- Cu-based catalysts --- Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 --- furfural --- furfuryl alcohol --- CuMgFe --- hydrogenolysis of glycerol --- 1,2-propanediol --- recycled --- isobutane dehydrogenation --- MgF2 promoter --- hydrotalcite-derived composites --- supported Pt-In catalysts --- kaolin --- mesoporous --- heterogeneous catalyst --- esterification --- waste valorization

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The objective of this Special Issue is to provide new contributions in the area of biomass valorization using heterogeneous catalysts and focusing specifically on the structure/activity relationships of specific and important oxidation, hydrogenation, hydrodeoxygenation and biocatalytic processes. The issue emphasizes the influence of the design and morphology of the catalyst, in terms of particle size, redox and acid-base properties and catalyst stability. Finally, mechanistic studies and examples of design and optimization of industrial processes are presented.

Research & information: general --- Technology: general issues --- furfural --- MPV reaction --- acid-base characterization --- methylbutynol test reaction --- Fischer-Tropsch synthesis --- Co/SBA-15 --- pore size --- pore length --- dry gel conversion --- MFI zeolite --- particle sizes --- silica sources --- hydrodeoxygenation --- biocatalysis --- bio-based platform chemicals --- furans --- reduction --- whole cells --- nickel phosphide --- cellobiose --- sorbitol --- MCM-41 --- hydrolytic hydrogenation --- zeolites --- catalysis --- solid acid --- solid base --- chemical modification --- alkylation --- glycosidation --- 2 methyl-furan --- catalyst design --- iron --- magnesium oxide --- catalytic hydrogen transfer reduction --- methanol --- diffusion --- ab initio --- industrial design --- H-ZSM-5 --- multiscale modeling --- adiabatic reactor --- zeolite catalysis --- hydrogenation --- palladium --- nanoparticles --- capping agent --- sol-immobilization --- furoic acid --- gold --- hydrotalcite --- oxidation --- bimetallic nanoparticles --- base-free --- green oxidation --- embedded catalysts --- biomass --- Eucalyptus globulus wood --- cross-flow autohydrolysis --- kinetic modeling --- hemicellulose-derived products --- gold catalysis --- selective oxidation --- colloidal synthesis --- 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural --- 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid --- particle size --- biomass conversion --- in-situ synthesis --- Sn-Beta zeolite --- isomorphous substitution --- glucose --- HMF --- oxidative condensation --- furan-2-acrolein --- Pd-based catalysts

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Biomass has received significant attention as a sustainable feedstock that can replace diminishing fossil fuels in the production of value-added chemicals and energy. Many new catalytic technologies have been developed for the conversion of biomass feedstocks into valuable biofuels and bioproducts. However, many of these still suffer from several disadvantages, such as weak catalytic performance, harsh reaction conditions, a high processing cost, and questionable sustainability, which limit their further applicability/development in the immediate future. In this context, the esterification of carboxylic acids represents a very valuable solution to these problems, requiring mild reaction conditions and being advantageously integrable with many existing processes of biomass conversion. An emblematic example is the acid-catalyzed hydrothermal route for levulinic acid production, already upgraded to that of higher value alkyl levulinates, obtained by esterification or directly by biomass alcoholysis. Many other chemical processes benefit from esterification, such as the synthesis of biodiesel, which includes monoalkyl esters of long-chain fatty acids prepared from renewable vegetable oils and animal fats, or that of cellulose esters, mainly acetates, for textile uses. Even pyrolysis bio-oil should be stabilized by esterification to neutralize the acidity of carboxylic acids and moderate the reactivity of other typical biomass-derived compounds, such as sugars, furans, aldehydes, and phenolics. This Special Issue reports on the recent main advances in the homogeneous/heterogeneous catalytic conversion of model/real biomass components into ester derivatives that are extremely attractive for both the academic and industrial fields. Dr. Domenico Licursi Guest Editor

Research & information: general --- Chemistry --- eugenol --- acetylation --- flint kaolin --- mesoporous aluminosilicate --- functionalization --- heterogeneous catalysis --- n-butyl levulinate --- alcoholysis --- butanolysis --- Eucalyptus nitens --- microwaves --- biorefinery --- diesel blends --- process intensification --- hydrolysis --- solvothermal process --- alkyl levulinate --- levulinic acid --- 5-hydroxymethylfurfural --- furfural --- humins --- biomass ester derivatives --- solvothermal processing --- γ-valerolactone --- Ni-Fe bimetallic catalysts --- ABE fermentation --- Ni-MgO-Al2O3 catalyst --- biofuel --- catalytic performance --- sewage scum --- methyl (R)-10-hydroxystearate --- FAMEs --- biodiesel --- estolides --- cardoon --- waste biomass --- bio-fuels --- heterogeneous catalysts --- combustion --- PEG --- transesterification --- n/a