The hottest micro cellulose molecules are expected

2022-08-18
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Microcellulose molecules are expected to change biofuel production

chemical engineers at Amherst University in Massachusetts announced on February 17, 2012 that a "microcellulose" molecule has been found, whose behavior can be characterized in the same way as when cellulose is heated to high temperature. Therefore, micro cellulose molecules are expected to completely change the production of biofuels

in the process of high-temperature biofuel production, such as pyrolysis or gasification, complex chemical reactions will occur. These reactions are still unknown until now, because the wood molecules are too large to track with computer models, and the reactions are too complex

however, this molecule was found( α- Cyclodextrin), which has greatly increased the possibility of using computers to simulate and study biomass

Paul dauenhauer, professor and leader of chemical engineering at Amherst University in Massachusetts, said that it will take about 10000 years to simulate the chemical reaction of real cellulose. The use of "micro cellulose" seriously affects the reaction of environmental molecules with the same biofuel, and the simulation can be completed within one month

using these faster computer simulations, dauenhauer's team has been able to track the conversion of wood to chemical vapor products. These reactions include the creation of furans, which are important molecules for the production of biofuels. This will allow the improvement of the reaction model of wood conversion, and support the backbone enterprises as the leader, so as to design the biomass reactor, so as to optimize the production of biofuels

researchers will maximize the new path of furan production and minimize the generation of gases such as CO2

a new experimental technology called thin film pyrolysis has been found. It involves the creation of cellulose sheets, which can rapidly heat up to more than 1million ° C in one minute, and then create the use of volatile chemical products: they are the precursors of biofuels

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