Succinic Acid Market worth $496.0 Million by 2016 Increasing popularity of renewable chemicals remain the key driving factors for chemical companies to enter into the production of bio-based succinic acid by using…
One of the pathways to succinic acid is from furfural via furfuryl alcohol (http://j.mp/17qPl6f)
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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.
PET recycling is important, but all polyesters must be made from sugars (rather sooner than later)
Faster hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol (in water!).
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