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Environmental Process Engineering

 

Study on proposing some environmental-friendly chemical processes

  • Prof. KIMURA Yukitaka
  • E-mail：yktkkimu [at] cc.okayama-u.ac.jp 
  • Keywords：environmental-friendly chemical processes/slug flow

 

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  • Assoc.Prof. SHIMANOUCHI Toshinori
  • E-mail：tshima [at] okayama-u.ac.jp 
  • Keywords：environmental-friendly chemical processes/slug flow

 

Directory of Researchers 

In order to convert an unusable material to a valuable material, we research to propose an environmental-friendly chemical processes. We proposed the three chemical processes shown in the figure to produce a monomer to make a bioplastic from woody biomass. As the first process, we used subcritical water to hydolyze cellulose and hemicellulose. We converted monosaccharide to 2,5-Hydroxymethylfrufral (HMF) by the quick extraction as called as “Slug Flow” as the second process. We proposed a converting chemical process using a metal catalyst with liposome, which is an artificial cell membrane, to produce 2,5-frandicarboxylic acid.