Print Email Facebook Twitter Exergetical evaluation of biobased synthesis pathways Title Exergetical evaluation of biobased synthesis pathways Author Frenzel, P. Hillerbrand, R. Pfennig, A. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Values, Technology and Innovation Date 2014-01-29 Abstract The vast majority of today’s chemical products are based on crude oil. An attractive and sustainable alternative feedstock is biomass. Since crude oil and biomass differ in various properties, new synthesis pathways and processes have to be developed. In order to prioritize limited resources for research and development (R & D), their economic potential must be estimated in the early stages of development. A suitable measure for an estimation of the economic potential is based on exergy balances. Different structures of synthesis pathways characterised by the chemical exergy of the main components are evaluated. Based on a detailed evaluation of the underlying processes, general recommendations for future bio-based synthesis pathways are derived. Subject biomassbio-based productsexergy analysissynthesis pathways To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88442cc9-f3a6-4db2-b591-5cb0ddd22562 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/polym6020327 Publisher MDPI ISSN 2073-4360 Source Polymers, 6 (2), 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Files PDF frenzel-polymers-06-00327.pdf 164.22 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:88442cc9-f3a6-4db2-b591-5cb0ddd22562/datastream/OBJ/view