Sunlight-Driven Biomass Photorefinery for Coproduction of Sustainable Hydrogen and Value-Added Biochemicals

• Published in: ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering Vol. 8; no. 41; pp. 15772 - 15781
• Main Authors: Wu, Xinxing, Zhao, Heng, Khan, Mohd Adnan, Maity, Partha, Al-Attas, Tareq, Larter, Stephen, Yong, Qiang, Mohammed, Omar F., Kibria, Md Golam, Hu, Jinguang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 19.10.2020
• Subjects: biobased products; biomass; carbon; cellulose; glucose; green chemistry; hydrogen; lactic acid; light; lighting; lignocellulose; phosphoric acid; photocatalysts; quartz crystal microbalance; value added; wheat straw

We demonstrate a potential pathway of biomass photorefinery (PR) using low-cost CoO/g-C₃N₄ catalysts for the coproduction of hydrogen and lactic acid under visible light illumination. To do so, we follow a bottom-up approach to systematically investigate the photoreforming performance of glucose, di...