Applications of subcritical and supercritical water conditions for extraction, hydrolysis, gasification, and carbonization of biomass: a critical review

Autor(es)

Lachos-Perez, D. ; Brown, A. B. ; Mudhoo, A. ; Martinez, J. ; Timko, M. T. ; Rostagno, M. A. ; Forster-Cameiro, T.

• Tipo de documento: Artigo de Revisão
• Fonte: BIOFUEL RESEARCH JOURNAL-BRJ; v. 4, n. 2, p. 611-626, SPR 2017.
• Citações Web of Science: 13

Resumo

This review summarizes the recent essential aspects of subcritical and supercritical water technology applied to the extraction, hydrolysis, carbonization, and gasification processes. These are clean and fast technologies which do not need pretreatment, require less reaction time, generate less corrosion and residues, do not use toxic solvents, and reduce the synthesis of degradation byproducts. The equipment design, process parameters, and types of biomass used for subcritical and supercritical water process are presented. The benefits of catalysis to improve process efficiency are addressed. Bioactive compounds, reducing sugars, hydrogen, biodiesel, and hydrothermal char are the final products of subcritical and supercritical water processes. The present review also revisits advances of the research trends in the development of subcritical and supercritical water process technologies. (C) 2017 BRTeam. All rights reserved. (AU)

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