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Towards a Versatile and Sustainable Platform for Tailor-Made Adhesives
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 2022-06-17)
The main objective of the present thesis work was to explore the possibility to design and synthesize versatile environmental-friendly adhesives and to adjust their properties to be suitable for different purposes by ...
Development of structured catalyst and reactor technologies for biomass conversion - Continuous production of sugar alcohols
(Åbo Akademi University, 2021-05-19)
Energy-efficient technologies have been an aspiration for chemical industries, especially the design of chemical reactors. Structured catalysts play an important role to achieve this purpose. Several types of structured ...
Production of γ-valerolactone, a green platform molecule
(Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen & Åbo Akademi University, 2023-06-28)
Non-renewable feedstock should be replaced with renewable resources in the production of energy, chemical commodities, and materials to increase sustainability. Biomass, especially 2nd generation biomass sources such as ...
Development of advanced oxidation processes for the Finnish pulp and paper industry water treatment
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 2022-11-04)
Advanced oxidation processes (AOP) have been developed as a pinnacle of chemical water treatment to face the more tightening environmental limits during the last three decades. Whenever either pure coagulation & flocculation ...
Hydrogen Peroxide as Green Oxidant : Mechanistic Insight in the Direct Synthesis and Application
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 2023-07-14)
In recent years the need to lower the environmental impact of chemical processes and the reduction of the reliance of non-renewable raw materials have been in the focus of academic and industrial research to battle and ...
Modeling and analysis of blast furnace drainage
(Åbo Akademi University, 2020-10-02)
The blast furnace is the prevailing unit process for iron-making in the steelmaking process and the present growing global demand for steel leads to higher requirements set on the efficiency and productivity of the process. ...
Multifaceted Applications of Nanocellulose-based Materials for Water Remediation
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 2022-08-26)
During the last decades, water pollution has become a severe environmental and health crisis in many countries due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, attracting increasing attention worldwide. As one of the most ...
Monomers from vegetable oil feedstock : kinetics, catalysis and thermal risk
(Åbo Akademi University & Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen, 2021-07-09)
Polyurethanes are among the most important polymers in our everyday life, they are industrially produced via the reaction of polyols and di-isocyanates. This process present multiple severe drawbacks such as high toxicity ...
Reductive catalytic depolymerization of industrial lignin and hemicellulose – process development and intensification
(Åbo Akademi University & Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen, 2021-10-01)
Modern biorefinery aims at utilizing renewable feedstocks to make a wide range of products such as chemicals, biofuels, and biomaterials while leaving as little residue as possible. Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising ...
Green aviation fuel hydrocarbons from lignocellulosic biomass via hydrothermal liquefaction
(Åbo Akademi University, 2021-05-21)
Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of lignocellulosic biomass in primary alcohols is a novel thermochemical method to produce sustainable aviation fuel range cyclic hydrocarbons. In this method, particularly the underutilized ...