New Feedstock Beckons for Transportation Fuels
A two-step process starting with ϒ-valerolactone (GVL) can efficiently produce liquid alkenes suitable for jet fuel and gasoline,
say researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. The route could spur large-scale production of both GVL and its
precursor, biomass-derived levulinic acid, hopes James Dumesic, professor of chemical and biological engineering and lead researcher.
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