Energy on Steroids ...
.. is how an investment analyst assessed one of our projects, because furfural production as part of a cellulosic ethanol plant gives the financials a boost.
Although the C 5 -sugars (pentosans) of the hemicellulose can be turned into cellulosic ethanol, its pollutants are net contributors of CO 2 greenhouse gases :
20% of the molecular carbon is lost by converting the C 5 -molecule in to two C 2 -molecules of the ethanol.
Once saccharified, there are further carbon losses associated with the typical fermentation inefficiencies of the ethanol production.
The removal of the conversions
