Ariba, Houda published the artcilePhysicochemical Properties for the Reaction Systems: Levulinic Acid, Its Esters, and γ-Valerolactone, Recommanded Product: Ethyl 4-oxopentanoate, the main research area is physicochem property reaction system levulinate ester valerolactone.
The use of biomass, particularly, a second-generation one, as a renewable raw material is crucial to sustain the chem. industry. To favor the development of such processes, one needs to make a cost evaluation, which requires the knowledge of process thermodn. and kinetics. In this paper, measurements of different physicochem. properties (viscosity, d., refractive index, and sp. heat capacity) were done for the systems: hydrogenation of levulinic acid or its esters to γ-valerolactone. From those physicochem. measurements, it was possible to extract the ones of the intermediates and perform a thermodn. model assessment by using Aspen Plus. The Redlich-Kwong-Soave cubic equation of state and Benedict-Webb-Rubin-Starling virial equation of state are suitable to describe these chem. systems.
Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data published new progress about Biomass refining. 539-88-8 belongs to class esters-buliding-blocks, name is Ethyl 4-oxopentanoate, and the molecular formula is C7H12O3, Recommanded Product: Ethyl 4-oxopentanoate.
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