Making jet fuel from biomass waste

George Huber at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and colleagues have shown that waste feedstocks from biomass power plants can be turned into jet and diesel fuel in an integrated and economical process.

View the Chemistry World article and Green Chemistry paper today

Or view more articles by George Huber in Energy & Environmental Science:

Perspective feature article
The critical role of heterogeneous catalysis in lignocellulosic biomass conversion
Energy Environ. Sci., 2009, 2, 68-80

Depolymerization of lignocellulosic biomass to fuel precursors: maximizing carbon efficiency by combining hydrolysis with pyrolysis
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 358-365

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