
BTL technologies are on the eve of big-scale commercialization—Meeting the second wave of bioenergy industry
Cheng Xu1、Shi Yuanchun2
Strategic Study of CAE ›› 2015, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1) : 11-18.
BTL technologies are on the eve of big-scale commercialization—Meeting the second wave of bioenergy industry
Cheng Xu1、Shi Yuanchun2
A series of newly-developed type of biofuel plants have established which are featured with products of thermo-chemical platform, sugar platform and carboxylates platform, as well as use lignocellulosic feedstock. Lignocellulose biomass-to-liquids (BTL) is fundamentally different both from the first generation biofuels that are all derived from cereal and vegetable oil, and from the second generation ethanol that is based on hydrolysis-fermentation process. The prominent feature of such a new kind of advanced biofuels is that they can make full use of the energy contained in lignin and semicellulose, which is rich in woody materials, thus considerably broadens the scope of feedstock. Recently, majority of these technologies have undergone tests of pilot and demonstration phases, and on the eve of big scale of commercialization. The products derived from above three platforms are all characteristic of reducing CO2 emission by 70 %~90 % and can be used directly on current vehicle engines and fuel infrastructure. Chinese scientists have also tapped a few novel technologies in this field, and without lag behind in the severe international competition.
thermo-chemical platform / sugar platform / carboxylates platform / lignocellulosic feedstock / drop-in biofuels / commercialization
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