Lele Feng, Jin Guo, Jifeng Pang, Ming Yin, Yujia Zhao, Pengfei Wu and Mingyuan Zheng
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Abstract
Ethanol is the most abundant chemical widely used in the fuel additive sector. Currently, it is mainly produced by the fermentation process, but it suffers from low carbon balance and poor reaction efficiency issues. In the past few decades, several promising catalytic methods have been proposed for ethanol production, depending on the available energy resources, technology development, and government policy. Herein, the catalytic pathways for ethanol production from petroleum, coal, natural gas, CO2, and biomass in more sustainable ways are introduced. Specifically, the most crucial elementary steps in these catalytic pathways are reviewed and discussed, and key factors determining the feasibility of these catalytic reactions are listed, providing an all-around overview on the development of ethanol production in the near future. In the last section, an outlook was provided to highlight the challenges and opportunities for ethanol production and applications in more green and sustainable catalytic manners.
期刊介绍:
Green Chemistry is a journal that provides a unique forum for the publication of innovative research on the development of alternative green and sustainable technologies. The scope of Green Chemistry is based on the definition proposed by Anastas and Warner (Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, P T Anastas and J C Warner, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998), which defines green chemistry as the utilisation of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products. Green Chemistry aims to reduce the environmental impact of the chemical enterprise by developing a technology base that is inherently non-toxic to living things and the environment. The journal welcomes submissions on all aspects of research relating to this endeavor and publishes original and significant cutting-edge research that is likely to be of wide general appeal. For a work to be published, it must present a significant advance in green chemistry, including a comparison with existing methods and a demonstration of advantages over those methods.