Biomass enrgy use as a fuel?

Scientist have mooved to a big step to use biomass energy as fuel that is one of the more promising guide to energy independence leads away from crude oil and into the forests and fields.

scientists have been reasearching efficient means to convert non food based biomass into fuels and chemical feedstocks,  reducing fossil fuel dependence and reducing greenhouse gas, CO2 emissions. To that end, an article was published in the scientific journal Nature Chemistry that could offer a big step on the path to renewable energy.

The aricle "The hydrodeoxygenation of bioderived furans into alkanes," guides how to take starting materials that are derived from glucose or cellulose, a carbohydrate in woody biomass and the most common organic compound on Earth, and mix them with
other bio derived building blocks to have new molecules that have between eight and fifteen carbons in the backbone.

The scintist then convert these molecules into hydrocarbons (HCs) which are similar to those found in petrol and diesel, giving an opportunity to have an independance in fuel or to synthesize industrial chemicals such as polymers, pharmaceuticals and pesticides from biomass.

This new approach, an alternative route to convert glucose molecules to HCs that uses much less energy and has a very high degree of conversion to provide pure products. This simple synthesis allows researchers to generate a range of alkanes from
a variety of biomass derived molecules. The sientist are looking to improve catalyst recyclability and scale up methods.