Petrochemical Output From Biomass Boosted by 40 Percent
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Chemical engineers at UMass Amherst, using a catalytic fast pyrolysis process that transforms renewable non-food biomass into petrochemicals, have developed a new catalyst that boosts the yield for five key "building blocks of the chemical industry" by 40 percent compared to previous methods.