EXC 236:  Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass

• Subject Area: Fluid Mechanics, Technical Thermodynamics and Thermal Energy Engineering ; Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry
• Term: from 2007 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39030946

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

TMFB was established in 2007 as a new research area at RWTH Aachen on basis of the disciplinary strengths in chemistry, bio- and chemical engineering, and combustion engineering, involving researchers from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, together with partners from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Aachen) and the Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung (Mühlheim). TMFB’s integrated, interdisciplinary approach defines a unique profile among the rapidly growing number of international activities, which focus either on biomass conversion or on combustion research. Realizing the long-term fundamental scientific challenges of its vision, TMFB’s objectives of the first phase were the establishment of a broad dedicated set of experimental and numerical methods to enable the fuel design process, the generation of high-quality data and information to validate the concepts, and the implementation of scientific and organizational measures to integrate biofuel production and combustion research for the identification of new fuel candidates. The individual results demonstrate convincingly the potential of the interdisciplinary approach, leading to the following conclusions: (1) medium-size oxygen-containing molecules provide promising fuel components, and their molecular diversity can be exploited in a model-assisted fuel design process; (2) novel selective (bio-)chemical transformation processes of lignocellulosic biomass can be developed for the synthesis of such target structures from cellulose and hemicellulose; (3) the combustion of these fuels is nearly free of soot and nitrogen oxide emissions, and the efficiency particularly of spark-ignited combustion can be increased significantly; (4) new methods for conceptual process design and evaluation of alternative production pathways prove the potential for a positive overall energy balance. With the establishment and validation of the new methodologies and the integration of the collaborative network, scientific progress gained full momentum leading to over 550 peer reviewed publications, including collaborative papers in high impact journals. The pioneering role of the Cluster is also confirmed by more than 100 invited keynote and plenary lectures specifically on the TMFB-approach at highly ranked international conferences, and by the International Conference on Fuel Science established by TMFB which attracts over 150 international experts from industry and research institutions each year. Researchers at different stages of their career received highly renowned recognitions and fellowships, including the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship (Matthias Wessling), the Robert-Bosch-Junior Professorship (Regina Palkovits), the Sofia Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Roberto Rinaldi), and the Wöhler-Award of the German Chemical Society (Leitner, 2009; Schüth, 2011).

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1742747744

Publications

• (2008): Depolymerization of Cellulose Using Solid Catalysts in Ionic Liquids. In: Angew. Chem. 120 (42), S. 8167–8170
  Rinaldi, Roberto; Palkovits, Regina; Schüth, Ferdi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.200802879)
• (2008): Quantum mechanically based estimation of perturbed-chain polar statistical associating fluid theory parameters for analyzing their physical significance and predicting properties. In: The journal of physical chemistry. B 112 (18), S. 5693–5701
  van Nhu, Nguyen; Singh, Mahendra; Leonhard, Kai
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/jp7105742)
• (2009): Acid hydrolysis of cellulose as the entry point into biorefinery schemes. In: ChemSusChem 2 (12), S. 1096–1107
  Rinaldi, Roberto; Schüth, Ferdi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.200900188)
• (2009): Design of solid catalysts for the conversion of biomass. In: Energy Environ. Sci. 2 (6), S. 610–626
  Rinaldi, Roberto; Schüth, Ferdi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/B902668A)
• (2009): Investigations of Clustred Diesel Jets under Quiescent High-Pressure and High- Temperature Conditions using Mie, Schlieren and Chemiluminescence Imaging. In: SAE Int. J. Engines 2 (2), S. 272–286
  Cárdenas, Maria; Hottenbach, Peter; Kneer, Reinhold; Grünefeld, Gerd
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-2771)
• (2009): Prediction of multicomponent mutual diffusion in liquids: Model discrimination using NMR data. In: Fluid Phase Equilibria 278 (1-2), S. 27–35
  Bardow, André; Kriesten, Ernesto; Voda, Mihai Adrian; Casanova, Federico; Blümich, Bernhard; Marquardt, Wolfgang
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2009.01.001)
• Laminar Burning Velocities of Dimethyl Ether, n-Heptane and iso-Octane at High Pressure
  Beeckmann, J.; Keppner, J.; Glatz, T.; Peters, N.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-2656)
• Numerical Investigation of Laminar Burning Velocities of High Octane Fuel Blends Containing Ethanol
  Röhl, O.; Jerzembeck, S.; Beeckmann, J.; Peters, N.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-0935)
• (2010): An integrated catalytic approach to fermentable sugars from cellulose. In: ChemSusChem 3 (10), S. 1151–1153
  Rinaldi, Roberto; Engel, Philip; Büchs, Jochen; Spiess, Antje C.; Schüth, Ferdi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201000153)
• (2010): Charakterisierung von Cellulasepräparationen mittels Streulicht. In: Chemie Ingenieur Technik 82 (1-2), S. 117–120
  Spiess, A. C.; Wulfhorst, H.; Jäger, G.; Ellinidou, E.; Büchs, J.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.200900126)
• (2010): Determination of ignition delay times of different hydrocarbons in a new high pressure shock tube. In: Shock Waves 20 (4), S. 307– 316
  Heufer, K. A.; Olivier, H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-010-0262-2)
• (2010): Enzymecatalyzed C–C bond formation using 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MTHF) as (co)solvent: efficient and bio-based alternative to DMSO and MTBE. In: Green Chem. 12 (12), S. 2240
  Shanmuganathan, Saravanakumar; Natalia, Dessy; van den Wittenboer, Anne; Kohlmann, Christina; Greiner, Lasse; Domínguez de María, Pablo
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C0GC00590H)
• (2010): Hydrogenolysis of cellulose combining mineral acids and hydrogenation catalysts. In: Green Chem. 12 (6), S. 972
  Palkovits, Regina; Tajvidi, Kameh; Procelewska, Joanna; Rinaldi, Roberto; Ruppert, Agnieszka
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C000075B)
• (2010): Katalytische Umsetzung von Cellobiose. In: Chemie Ingenieur Technik 82 (8), S. 1211–1214
  Liauw, M. A.; Winterle, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.201000069)
• (2010): Modelling cellulose solubilities in ionic liquids using COSMO-RS. In: Green Chem. 12 (12), S. 2172–2181
  Kahlen, Jens; Masuch, Kai; Leonhard, Kai
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C0GC00200C)
• (2010): On the mechanism of ruthenium-catalyzed formation of hydrogen from alcohols: a DFT study. In: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 16 (45), S. 13487– 13499
  Johansson, Adam Johannes; Zuidema, Erik; Bolm, Carsten
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201000593)
• (2010): Optical and Thermodynamic Investigations of Reference Fuels for Future Combustion Systems. In: SAE Int. J. Fuels Lubr. 3 (2), S. 819–838
  Hottenbach, Peter; Brands, Thorsten; Grünefeld, Gerd; Janssen, Andreas; Muether, Martin; Pischinger, Stefan
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-2193)
• (2010): Pentenoic acid pathways for cellulosic biofuels. In: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 49 (26), S. 4336–4338
  Palkovits, Regina
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201002061)
• (2010): Point by point analysis: how ionic liquid affects the enzymatic hydrolysis of native and modified cellulose. In: Green Chem. 12 (11), S. 1959
  Engel, Philip; Mladenov, Radoslav; Wulfhorst, Helene; Jäger, Gernot; Spiess, Antje C.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C0GC00135J)
• (2010): Potential of Cellulose-Derived Biofuels for Soot Free Diesel Combustion. In: SAE Int. J. Fuels Lubr. 3 (1), S. 70–84
  Janssen, Andreas; Pischinger, Stefan; Muether, Martin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-0335)
• (2010): Salt-assisted organic-acid-catalyzed depolymerization of cellulose. In: Green Chem. 12 (10), S. 1844
  vom Stein, Thorsten; Grande, Philipp; Sibilla, Fabrizio; Commandeur, Ulrich; Fischer, Rainer; Leitner, Walter; Domínguez de María, Pablo
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C0GC00262C)
• (2010): Screening of new solvents for artemisininextraction process using ab initio methodology. In: Green Chem. 12 (2), S. 241–251
  Lapkin, Alexei A.; Peters, Martina; Greiner, Lasse; Chemat, Smain; Leonhard, Kai; Liauw, Marcel A.; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/B922001A)
• (2010): Selective and Flexible Transformation of Biomass-Derived Platform Chemicals by a Multifunctional Catalytic System. In: Angew. Chem. 122 (32), S. 5642–5646
  Geilen, Frank M. A.; Engendahl, Barthel; Harwardt, Andreas; Marquardt, Wolfgang; Klankermayer, Jürgen; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201002060)
• (2010): Selective hydrogenation of biomass derived substrates using ionic liquid-stabilized ruthenium nanoparticles. In: Green Chem. 12 (9), S. 1634
  Julis, Jennifer; Hölscher, Markus; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C004751A)
• (2010): The biorenewables opportunity - toward next generation process and product systems. In: AIChE J.
  Marquardt, Wolfgang; Harwardt, Andreas; Hechinger, Manuel; Kraemer, Korbinian; Viell, Joern; Voll, Anna
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.12380)
• A Reduced Kinetic Reaction Mechanism for the Autoignition of Dimethyl Ether
  Beeckmann, Joachim; Cai, Liming; Röhl, Olaf; Pitsch, Heinz; Peters, Norbert
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-2108)
• (2011): Asymptotic analysis of homogeneous isotropic decaying turbulence with unknown initial conditions. In: Journal of Turbulence 12, N30
  Schaefer, P.; Gampert, M.; Goebbert, J. H.; Gauding, M.; Peters, N.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14685248.2011.601313)
• (2011): Cellulose-based sustainable polymers: state of the art and future trends. In: Macromolecular rapid communications 32 (17), S. 1299–1311
  Rose, Marcus; Palkovits, Regina
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201100230)
• (2011): Continuous flow organometallic catalysis: new wind in old sails. In: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 47 (13), S. 3691–3701
  Hintermair, Ulrich; Franciò, Giancarlo; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC04958A)
• (2011): Disintegration and dissolution kinetics of wood chips in ionic liquids. In: Holzforschung 65 (4)
  Viell, Jörn; Marquardt, Wolfgang
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/hf.2011.072)
• (2011): Fick diffusion coefficients of liquid mixtures directly obtained from equilibrium molecular dynamics. In: The journal of physical chemistry. B 115 (44), S. 12921–12929
  Liu, Xin; Schnell, Sondre K.; Simon, Jean-Marc; Bedeaux, Dick; Kjelstrup, Signe; Bardow, André; Vlugt, Thijs J. H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/jp208360s)
• (2011): From biomass to feedstock: one-step fractionation of lignocellulose components by the selective organic acid-catalyzed depolymerization of hemicellulose in a biphasic system. In: Green Chem. 13 (7), S. 1772–1777
  vom Stein, Thorsten; Grande, Philipp M.; Kayser, Henning; Sibilla, Fabrizio; Leitner, Walter; Domínguez de María, Pablo
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C1GC00002K)
• (2011): Highly Selective Decarbonylation of 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural in the Presence of Compressed Carbon Dioxide. In: Angew. Chem. 123 (30), S. 6963–6966
  Geilen, Frank M. A.; vom Stein, Thorsten; Engendahl, Barthel; Winterle, Sonja; Liauw, Marcel A.; Klankermayer, Jürgen; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201007582)
• (2011): Impact Of Physical Properties On Primary Breakup For A Diesel Nozzle Configuration. In: Atomiz Spr 21 (3), S. 221–235
  Reddemann, Manuel Armin; Mathieu, F.; Martin, D.; Kneer, R.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1615/AtomizSpr.2011002888)
• (2011): Nanocompartments with a pH release system based on an engineered OmpF channel protein. In: Soft Matter 7 (2), S. 532–539
  Ihle, Saskia; Onaca, Ozana; Rigler, Per; Hauer, Bernhard; Rodríguez-Ropero, Francisco; Fioroni, Marco; Schwaneberg, Ulrich
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00679C)
• (2011): Role of peroxy chemistry in the high-pressure ignition of n-butanol – Experiments and detailed kinetic modelling. In: Combustion and Flame 158 (8), S. 1444–1455
  Vranckx, S.; Heufer, K. A.; Lee, C.; Olivier, H.; Schill, L.; Kopp, W. A. et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.12.028)
• (2011): Scandium alkyl and amide complexes containing a cyclen-derived (NNNN) macrocyclic ligand: synthesis, structure and ring-opening polymerization activity toward lactide monomers. In: Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 40 (30), S. 7748–7754
  Buffet, Jean-Charles; Okuda, Jun
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10075K)
• (2011): Screening of cellulases for biofuel production: online monitoring of the enzymatic hydrolysis of insoluble cellulose using highthroughput scattered light detection. In: Biotechnology journal 6 (1), S. 74–85.
  Jäger, Gernot; Wulfhorst, Helene; Zeithammel, Erik U.; Elinidou, Efthimia; Spiess, Antje C.; Büchs, Jochen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.201000387)
• (2011): Selective homogeneous hydrogenation of biogenic carboxylic acids with Ru(TriPhos)H+: a mechanistic study. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (36), S. 14349–14358
  Geilen, Frank M. A.; Engendahl, Barthel; Hölscher, Markus; Klankermayer, Jürgen; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/ja2034377)
• (2011): Separation of butanol from acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation by a hybrid extraction–distillation process. In: Computers & Chemical Engineering 35 (5), S. 949–963
  Kraemer, Korbinian; Harwardt, Andreas; Bronneberg, Rob; Marquardt, Wolfgang
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2011.01.028)
• (2011): Shock tube investigations of ignition delays of n-butanol at elevated pressures between 770 and 1250K. In: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 33 (1), S. 359–366
  Heufer, K. A.; Fernandes, R. X.; Olivier, H.; Beeckmann, J.; Röhl, O.; Peters, N.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2010.06.052)
• (2011): Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass for Homogeneous Low-Temperature Diesel Combustion. In: Energy Fuels 25 (10), S. 4734–4744
  Janssen, Andreas J.; Kremer, Florian W.; Baron, Jan H.; Muether, Martin; Pischinger, Stefan; Klankermayer, Juergen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/ef2010139)
• (2011): The allylcalcium monocation: a bridging allyl ligand with a non-bent coordination geometry. In: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 50 (25), S. 5753– 5756
  Lichtenberg, Crispin; Jochmann, Phillip; Spaniol, Thomas P.; Okuda, Jun
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201100073)
• (2011): The secondary splitting of zero-gradient points in a scalar field. In: J Eng Math 71 (1), S. 81–95
  Schaefer, P.; Gampert, M.; Gauding, M.; Peters, N.; Treviño, C.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-011-9452-x)
• Numerical Assessment of Emission Sources for a Modified Diesel Engine Running in PCCI Mode on a Mixture of Gasoline and Diesel
  Kerschgens, Bruno; Vanegas, Anyelo; Pitsch, Heinz
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-24-0014)
• (2012): Analysis of the Effect of Bio-Fuels on the Combustion in a Downsized DI SI Engine. In: SAE Int. J. Fuels Lubr. 5 (1), S. 274–288
  Thewes, Matthias; Muther, Martin; Brassat, Adrien; Pischinger, Stefan; Sehr, Andreas
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-1991)
• (2012): Biotests for hazard assessment of biofuel fermentation. In: Energy Environ. Sci. 5 (12), S. 9778
  Heger, Sebastian; Bluhm, Kerstin; Agler, Matthew T.; Maletz, Sibylle; Schäffer, Andreas; Seiler, Thomas-Benjamin et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ee21623j)
• (2012): Hydrogenolysis goes bio: from carbohydrates and sugar alcohols to platform chemicals. In: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 51 (11), S. 2564–2601
  Ruppert, Agnieszka M.; Weinberg, Kamil; Palkovits, Regina
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201105125)
• (2012): Reaction network flux analysis: Optimization-based evaluation of reaction pathways for biorenewables processing. In: AIChE J. 58 (6), S. 1788–1801
  Voll, A.; Marquardt, W.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.12704)
• (2012): Solvent-free catalytic depolymerization of cellulose to water-soluble oligosaccharides. In: ChemSusChem 5 (8), S. 1449–1454
  Meine, Niklas; Rinaldi, Roberto; Schüth, Ferdi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201100770)
• (2012): Toxicological and ecotoxicological potencies of biofuels used for the transport sector—a literature review. In: Energy Environ. Sci. 5 (6), S. 7381
  Bluhm, Kerstin; Heger, Sebastian; Seiler, Thomas-Benjamin; Hallare, Arnold V.; Schäffer, Andreas; Hollert, Henner
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ee03033k)
• (2013): An accurate moving boundary formulation in cut-cell methods. In: Journal of Computational Physics 235, S. 786–809
  Schneiders, Lennart; Hartmann, Daniel; Meinke, Matthias; Schröder, Wolfgang
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.09.038)
• (2013): Carbon Dioxide as a C 1 Building Block for the Formation of Carboxylic Acids by Formal Catalytic Hydrocarboxylation. In: Angew. Chem. 125 (46), S. 12341–12345
  Ostapowicz, Thomas G.; Schmitz, Marc; Krystof, Monika; Klankermayer, Jürgen; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201304529)
• (2013): Optimization of Diesel Combustion and Emissions with Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass. In: SAE Int. J. Fuels Lubr. 6 (3), S. 922–934
  Heuser, Benedikt; Kremer, Florian; Pischinger, Stefan; Klankermayer, Jürgen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2013-24-0059)
• (2013): Set of Acidic Resin Catalysts To Correlate Structure and Reactivity in Fructose Conversion to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural. In: ACS Catal. 3 (2), S. 123–127
  Richter, Felix H.; Pupovac, Kristina; Palkovits, Regina; Schüth, Ferdi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/cs3007439)
• (2013): Transmitted light microscopy for visualizing the turbulent primary breakup of a microscale liquid jet. In: Exp Fluids 54 (11)
  Reddemann, Manuel A.; Mathieu, Florian; Kneer, Reinhold
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-013-1607-2)
• Optimization of Diesel Combustion and Emissions with Newly Derived Biogenic Alcohols
  Heuser, Benedikt; Kremer, Florian; Pischinger, Stefan; Julis, Jennifer; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4271/2013-01-2690)
• (2014): Bifunctional nanoparticle–SILP catalysts (NPs@SILP) for the selective deoxygenation of biomass substrates. In: Chemical science 5 (12), S. 4895–4905
  Luska, Kylie L.; Julis, Jennifer; Stavitski, Eli; Zakharov, Dmitri N.; Adams, Alina; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sc02033b)
• (2014): Cellulose and hemicellulose valorisation: an integrated challenge of catalysis and reaction engineering. In: Energy Environ. Sci. 7 (9), S. 2803
  Delidovich, I.; Leonhard, K.; Palkovits, R.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ee01067a)
• (2014): Platinum-cobalt bimetallic nanoparticles in hollow carbon nanospheres for hydrogenolysis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. In: Nature materials 13 (3), S. 293–300
  Wang, G. H.; Hilgert, J.; Herrmann Richter, F.; Wang, F.; Bongard, H. J.; Spliethoff, B. et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NMAT3872)
• (2014): Ruthenium-Catalyzed Reductive Methylation of Imines Using Carbon Dioxide and Molecular Hydrogen. In: Angew. Chem. 126 (41), S. 11190– 11194
  Beydoun, Kassem; Ghattas, Ghazi; Thenert, Katharina; Klankermayer, Jürgen; Leitner, Walter
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201403711)
• (2014): Time-gated ballistic imaging using a large aperture switching beam. In: Optics express 22 (6), S. 7058–7074
  Mathieu, Florian; Reddemann, Manuel A.; Palmer, Johannes; Kneer, Reinhold
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.007058)
• (2015): A Comparison of the Microbial Production and Combustion Characteristics of Three Alcohol Biofuels: Ethanol, 1-Butanol, and 1-Octanol. In: Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology 3, S. 112
  Kremer, Florian; Blank, Lars M.; Jones, Patrik R.; Akhtar, M. Kalim
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2015.00112)
• (2015): Automated Discovery of Reaction Pathways, Rate Constants, and Transition States Using Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations. In: J. Chem. Theory Comput. 11 (6), S. 2517–2524
  Döntgen, Malte; Przybylski-Freund, Marie-Dominique; Kröger, Leif C.; Kopp, Wassja A.; Ismail, Ahmed E.; Leonhard, Kai
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00201)
• (2015): Basecatalysed cleavage of lignin β-O-4 model compounds in dimethyl carbonate. In: Green Chem. 17 (11), S. 4908–4912
  Dabral, Saumya; Mottweiler, Jakob; Rinesch, Torsten; Bolm, Carsten
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c5gc00186b)
• (2015): Combustion and emission behavior of linear C8- oxygenates. In: International Journal of Engine Research 16 (5), S. 627–638
  Heuser, Benedikt; Mauermann, Peter; Wankhade, Rajendra; Kremer, Florian; Pischinger, Stefan
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/1468087415594951)
• (2015): Copper- and Vanadium-Catalyzed Oxidative Cleavage of Lignin using Dioxygen. In: ChemSusChem 8 (12), S. 2106–2113
  Mottweiler, Jakob; Puche, Marta; Räuber, Christoph; Schmidt, Thomas; Concepción, Patricia; Corma, Avelino; Bolm, Carsten
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201500131)
• (2015): Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol using a homogeneous ruthenium-Triphos catalyst: from mechanistic investigations to multiphase catalysis. In: Chemical science 6 (1), S. 693–704
  Wesselbaum, Sebastian; Moha, Verena; Meuresch, Markus; Brosinski, Sandra; Thenert, Katharina M.; Kothe, Jens et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sc02087a)
• (2015): Ignition characteristics of a bio-derived class of saturated and unsaturated furans for engine applications. In: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 35 (3), S. 2957–2965
  Sudholt, Alena; Cai, Liming; Heyne, Joshua; Haas, Francis M.; Pitsch, Heinz; Dryer, Frederick L.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2014.06.147)
• (2015): Iron-catalysed oxidative cleavage of lignin and β-O-4 lignin model compounds with peroxides in DMSO. In: Green Chem. 17 (11), S. 5001–5008
  Mottweiler, Jakob; Rinesch, Torsten; Besson, Claire; Buendia, Julien; Bolm, Carsten
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c5gc01306b)
• (2015): Ruthenium- Lignin Model Substrates. In: Angew. Chem. 127 (20), S. 5957–5961
  vom Stein, Thorsten; den Hartog, Tim; Buendia, Julien; Stoychev, Spas; Mottweiler, Jakob; Bolm, Carsten et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201410620)
• (2015): Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass: Potentials of 2- butanone and 2-methylfuran in direct injection spark ignition engines. In: Fuel 167
  Hoppe, Fabian; Burke, Ultan; Thewes, Matthias; Heufer, Alexander; Kremer, Florian; Pischinger, Stefan
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.11.039)
• (2015): Theoretical Investigation of Intramolecular Hydrogen Shift Reactions in 3-Methyltetrahydrofuran (3-MTHF) Oxidation. In: J. Phys. Chem. A 119 (44), S. 10917–10928
  Parab, Prajakta R.; Sakade, Naoki; Sakai, Yasuyuki; Fernandes, Ravi; Heufer, K. Alexander
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08277)
• (2016): A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of butanone. In: Combustion and Flame 168, S. 296–309
  Burke, Ultan; Beeckmann, Joachim; Kopp, Wassja A.; Uygun, Yasar; Olivier, Herbert; Leonhard, Kai et al.
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