Abstract
Interest in developing renewable fuels is continuing to grow and biomass represents a viable source of renewable carbon with which to replace fossil-based components in transportation fuels. During our own work, we noticed that chemists think in terms of functional groups whereas fuel engineers think in terms of physical fuel properties. In this Concept article, we discuss the effect of carbon and oxygen functional groups on potential fuel properties. This serves as a way of informing our own thinking and provides us with a basis with which to design and synthesize molecules from biomass that could provide useful transportation fuels.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 922-931 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | ChemSusChem |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 10 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We are grateful to the Los Alamos National Laboratory LDRD program (LDRD20160095ER) and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Bioenergy Technology Office (WBS 2.3.1.103) for financial support. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC5206A25396.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Bioenergy Technology Office | WBS 2.3.1.103 |
| U.S. Department of Energy | DE-AC5206A25396 |
| Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
| National Nuclear Security Administration | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | LDRD20160095ER |
Keywords
- biofuel
- biomass
- fuels
- renewable
- review
