Typical Chinese Furfural Plant (Photo: DalinYebo)
Furfural manufacturing technologies have not changed much since the 1920s. Based on knowledge gained during and after the development of the SupraYield® process, existing processes have been reviewed for suitability to retrofit process units that will increase production and reduce water and airborne emissions.
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Keep it simple! Making furfural is not rocket science.
It’s all about the integrating furfural production into the mass and energy balance of a pulp or sugar mill,
The total operating cost (raw materials, utilities, fixed costs and depreciation costs) estimated to produce PEF was about $2,700/ton in Q2 2015.
However, bio-degradation of PET will result in breakdown products such as methane or (at best, if methane is recovered/converted to) CO2, the so called Greenhouse Gases, which in this case a derived from oil.
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