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T1 Supercritical water processes: future prospects
A1 Cocero Alonso, María José
K1 Microcombustibles
K1 Oxidación
K1 Hidrólisis
K1 Integración energética
AB This contribution examines the challenges faced by supercritical water processes for industrial development. As an alternative, the intensification of the supercritical water processes is presented in order to reduce the size of the equipment needed and to facilitate the scaling up of the process. The perspective of developing micro combustors using hydrothermal flames as the internal heat source could open up an alternative for the in-situ energy generation in biorefineries, for example. The fundamental studies about supercritical water hydrolysis using ultrafast reactors has enabled extremely high selectivity in the biomass fractionation processes, and in the production of C2 and C3 building blocks from key components. The high-energy consumption of this process is another issue that limit its commercialization. In the examples proposed, the energy, work recovery and energy integration allows the reduction of the total energy consumption and, in some processes, the availability of extra energy as heat and work.
PB Elsevier
SN 0896-8446
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/27310
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/27310
LA eng
NO Journal of Supercritical Fluid (In press), 2018
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-may-2024