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Selective Dissolution of Biomass with Ionic Liquids

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Effective utilization of biomass is one of the methods expected to solve future energy problems. Besides using as a material, biomass has been used as a fuel. Although it is convenient and therefore dried biomass has widely been used as a fuel, energy conversion efficiency by direct combustion is not so high. Since burning them generates carbon dioxide, it is not a desirable energy conversion method. Therefore, effective utilization of biomass has widely been studied, but the chemical stability of biomass is the big issue to transform them into usable materials. That is, there was no solvent capable of efficiently dissolving the biomass under mild condition. Of course, it can be dissolved in some kind of solvents under heating, but it is not desirable from the viewpoint of energy balance to input a large amount of energy to extract energy.

On the other hand, studies on ionic liquids, which are salts having extremely low melting point, are active. Since it is a salt, it is...

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo , Japan

    Hiroyuki Ohno, Mizuki Shimo, Takashi Akiba & Mao Nagatani

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  1. Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Process Engineering, Beijing, China

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    Toshiyuki Itoh

  2. Center for Research on Green Sustainable Chemistry, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

    Toshiyuki Itoh

  3. Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

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Ohno, ., Shimo, M., Akiba, T., Nagatani, M. (2019). Selective Dissolution of Biomass with Ionic Liquids. In: Zhang, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6739-6_45-1

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