Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.52, 218-223, August, 2017
Process design and techno-economic evaluation for catalytic production of cellulosic g-Valerolactone using lignin derived propyl guaiacol
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This paper presents an integrated strategy to produce cellulosic γ-Valerolactone (GVL) using lignin derived propyl guaiacol (PG) from lignocellulosic biomass. A commercially large-scale process that was designed based on the strategy achieves 12.3% carbon yields at low (9.1-30.0 wt%) concentrations of reactants, and requires an efficient separation system to obtain high recovery of products with low energy requirements. A heat exchanger network is designed to significantly decrease the total energy requirements of the process. Techno-economic evaluation results assuming nth commercial plant and negative economic parameters show that this process ($US 3,805/t GVL) can be cost competitive with current production approaches.
Keywords:γ-Valerolactone;Propyl guaiacol;Large-scale process designs;Heat exchanger network;Techno-economic evaluation
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