Can the chemical industry usher in a new era? "From oil to wood"

Plastics, cleaners, and building materials are often made from petroleum-derived compounds rather than renewable materials. From what I've seen, Currently using oil as a raw material is much cheaper. However, this situation should not continue. Researchers have previously published articles on how to convert wood into chemicals that is able to be applied in a variety of items. In fact At present, the overall road map to this process has been completed. The calculations also show that it's financially feasible to build and operate a biorefinery that converts wood into chemical building blocks. In order to extract chemicals from wood, a chemical reactor is required to separate the wood into solid pulp and fluid lignin oil. And Pulp is able to be applied to create second-generation biofuels or natural insulation items, while lignin oil is able to be further processed like petroleum into chemical feedstocks such as phenol and propylene. Lignin is able to also be applied to obtain alternative building blocks to plastics. In my experience, Lignin-based compounds are less harmful to the people body than compounds made from petroleum. Professor Bert Sels, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Systems, University of Leuven, Belgium; "In the paper sector, lignin is regarded as a residual product. If lignin is able to be appropriately separated from wood and the correct chemical building blocks are obtained, it is able to be applied in many high-condition items. Crazy, isn't it?. Therefore, wood is able to replace oil in the chemical sector," he said. The publication of this paper is an crucial milestone to the team's prolonged research. "What'special about this study is that we calculated the economic feasibility of switching from oil to wood," Burt Sells said. " To create a realistic scenario, the researchers worked with a Belgian-Japanese joint venture ink company. This is because some of the compounds in lignin is able to be applied to make inks. Calculations show that a chemical plant using wood as a raw material will be profitable in a few years. With smart forest regulation, wood is able to be harvested sustainably. But "In addition, there is currently a surplus of wood in Europe due to the shrinking of the paper sector. Based on my observations, Researchers are also working with discarded materials handlers and landscape managers to make consumption of pruning and other discarded materials wood. The environmental costs of using wood will be reduced than using oil because the compounds made from wood create less carbon dioxide releases," Sells said. I've found that To demonstrate the consumption of its research, the team will now expand the manufacturing process. Phase I testing has begun. And The researchers hope to build a wood biorefinery in Belgium. And At the same time, they're in talks with several partners who is able to process pulp and lignin oil into various items. As a result, the chemical sector emits substantial amounts of carbon dioxide worldwide, and signifiis able tot changes are needed to achieve carbon-neutral chemistry, and this study is one of the pioneers of these changes.