Optimization of High Efficiency Synthesis Process and Isolation of Furfural

DMT Creative Enterprises成立于1994年，专门从事建筑行业设备的设计，工程和制造。公司老板戴夫蒂森有一个农场生产业务，开始于2002年与农场土地500英亩。DMT启动了一项研究和开发项目，以开发一种创新的高效生物精炼技术，从芒草中生产糠醛。糠醛是一种生物可再生化学品，作为生产生物化学品的潜在化学品，已重新受到关注。它被用作许多高价值化学品和材料的起始原料。该项目将着眼于从生物质作物芒草中生产糠醛。目前的工业糠醛生产来自于玉米渣的使用，并且主要在中国生产。芒草的生物量是玉米的5倍。如果产率可以从目前的方法工业标准提高10%，这将使加拿大的糠醛生产具有竞争力。该活动的目的是确定预处理方法和工艺参数，以实现芒草中3种关键元素的95%分离，以及基于芒草干重的20%糠醛总收率。兰顿学院与DMT公司合作，致力于糠醛生产和纯化工艺的优化。工业合作伙伴DMT计划在该项目成功完成后，建造一个每天1吨的生产设施，用于从芒草中生产糠醛。

DMT Creative Enterprises started in 1994, specializes in design, engineering and fabrication of equipment for the constructionindustry. Company owner Dave Thiessen has a farm production business that started in 2002 with farm land of 500 acres. DMTstarted a research and development project to develop an innovative high efficiency bio-refining technology to produce furfuralfrom miscanthus.Furfural is a bio-renewable chemical that has gained renewed attention as a potential chemical for the production of bio-chemicals.It is used as a starting material for many high-value chemicals and materials. The project will look at furfural production from thebiomass crop miscanthus. Current industrial furfural production comes from the use of corn residues and is mostly produced inChina. Miscanthus can provide up to 5 times the biomass as corn. If the yield can be increased from current methods industrialstandards of 10%, this will make furfural production in Canada competitive. The objective of this activity is to determine the pretreatmentmethod and process parameters to achieve 95% separation of 3 key elements from miscanthus and an overall yield of20% furfural based on dry weight of miscanthus.Lambton College is partnering with the company DMT to work on the optimization of the furfural production and purificationprocess. The industrial partner, DMT is planning upon successful completion of this project to construct a 1 tonne per dayproduction facility for furfural production from miscanthus.