Towards an environmentally and economically sustainable biorefinery: heavy metal contaminated waste wood as a low-cost feedstock in a low-cost ionic liquid process
Florence J. V. Gschwend, Louis M. Hennequin, Agnieszka Brandt‐Talbot, Franky E. Bedoya‐Lora, G. H. Kelsall, Karen M. Polizzi, Paul S. Fennell, Jason P. Hallett
Abstract
In the present study, we used a low-cost protic ionic liquid, 1-methylimidazolium chloride, to simultaneously fractionate heavy metal contaminated wood and extract the metals from the wood at elevated temperature and short reaction time.
Topics & Concepts
Ionic liquidRaw materialBiorefineryEnvironmentally friendlyContaminationHeavy metalsMetalWaste managementChemistryProcess (computing)Pulp and paper industryEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental chemistryOrganic chemistryCatalysisComputer scienceEngineeringEcologyOperating systemBiologyExtraction and Separation ProcessesIonic liquids properties and applicationsCatalysis for Biomass Conversion