Recently, through the national construction high level university public school graduate project of national study abroad fund committee, doctoral student Jiang Shengjuan, dual cultured by school of Chemical Engineering and Curtin University of fuel and Energy Technology Research Institute, has made new progress in the study of new energy chemistry and technology, whose related scientific research results of “Formation of aromatic ring structures during the thermal treatment of mallee wood cylinders at low temperature”, “One-pot conversion of biomass-derived xylose and furfural into levulinate esters via acid catalysis”, “Effect of thermal pretreatment and ex-situ grinding on the pyrolysis of mallee wood cylinders” were carried in Applied Energy, Chemical Communications and Fuel Processing Technology in succession that Jiang Shengjuan was the first author (coauthor).
The “Formation of aromatic ring structures during the thermal treatment of mallee wood cylinders at low temperature” studied formation status of fused aromatic compound when small eucalyptus wood materials at the condition of low temperature heat treatment. It is found that when the heat treatment temperature is as low as 150oC, the structure of single ring aromatic ring formed by pyrolysis of biomass will condense further to form a condensed aromatic ring structure. This will help to control the formation of aromatic ring structure during biomass pyrolysis / gasification from the source, and is crucial to the optimization of technological conditions. The experts of this paper believe that this method can control the formation of aromatic ring structure in the process of biomass pyrolysis / gasification from the source, and the research results have guiding significance for industrial application of the technology.
The “One-pot conversion of biomass-derived xylose and furfural into levulinate esters via acid catalysis” could make biomass derived xylose and furan formaldehyde converted into levulinic acid in one step which provides a new idea for obtaining levulinic acid from biomass. The experts of this paper think that the synthetic method is simple and feasible, and the research results have theoretical significance for the efficient conversion and utilization of biomass.
The “Effect of thermal pretreatment and ex-situ grinding on the pyrolysis of mallee wood cylinders” fund that controlling the temperature of heat treatment of biomass (200oC) combined with crushing heavy bio oil yield increased significantly by heat treatment and in situ crushing combination. The experts of this paper think that exploration the mechanism of comminution and pyrolysis provides a theoretical basis for the industrial application of the thermal conversion technology of large particle woody biomass.
Applied Energy is an international authoritative periodical in the field of energy research. It belongs to the SCI region TOP journal. The latest impact factor is 7.182, which focuses on the innovative research results of new energy and fuel. Chemical Communications is a journal of chemical synthesis. It belongs to the SCI region TOP journal. The latest influencing factor is 6.319, and the main attention is paid to the innovative research results related to chemistry. Fuel Processing Technology is the SCI two area Journal of engineering technology, with the latest impact factor of 3.752.
The paper links as follows:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261916313149
http://pubs.rsc.org/-/content/articlehtml/2017/cc/c7cc01078h
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378382016310311
