{"id":170,"date":"2018-02-06T21:49:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginkgoumbrella.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2021-07-23T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:13:50","slug":"pef-a-bio-based-potetial-substitute-for-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginkgoumbrella.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"PEF, a bio-based potential substitute for PET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Using a plant-derived solvent called GVL (gamma-Valerolactone), University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering James Dumesic and his team have developed an economical and high-yielding way of producing furandicarboxylic acid, or FDCA. One of 12 chemicals the U.S. Department of Energy calls critical to forging a &#8220;green&#8221; chemical industry, FDCA is a necessary precursor to a renewable plastic called PEF (or polyethylene furanoate) as well as to a number of polyesters and polyurethanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Until now, FDCA has had a very low solubility in practically any solvent you make it in,&#8221; says Ali Hussain Motagamwala, a UW-Madison graduate student in chemical and biological engineering and co-author of the study. &#8220;You have to use a lot of solvent to get a small amount of FDCA, and you end up with high separation costs and undesirable waste products.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motagamwala and colleagues&#8217; new process begins with fructose, which they convert in a two-step process to FDCA in a solvent system composed of one part GVL and one part water. The end result is a high yield of FDCA that easily separates from the solvent as a white powder upon cooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team&#8217;s techno-economic analysis suggests that the process could currently produce FDCA at a minimum selling price of $1,490 per ton. With improvements, including lowering the cost of feedstock and reducing the reaction time, the price could reach $1,310 per ton, which would make their FDCA cost-competitive with some fossil fuel-derived plastic precursors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We think this is the streamlined and inexpensive approach to making FDCA that many people in the plastics industry have been waiting for,&#8221; says Dumesic. &#8220;Our hope is that this research opens the door even further to cost-competitive renewable plastics.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/01\/180121103402.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/01\/180121103402.htm\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-opt-id=96175310  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml1bxn6w95ea.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/ginkgoumbrella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bioplastic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1102\" width=\"318\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ml1bxn6w95ea.i.optimole.com\/w:518\/h:600\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/ginkgoumbrella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bioplastic.jpg 518w, https:\/\/ml1bxn6w95ea.i.optimole.com\/w:510\/h:591\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/ginkgoumbrella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bioplastic.jpg 510w, https:\/\/ml1bxn6w95ea.i.optimole.com\/w:345\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/ginkgoumbrella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bioplastic.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption>A crystal of furandicarboxylic acid, or FDCA, a plastic precursor created with biomass instead of petroleum.<br><em>Credit: UW\u2013Madison image by Ali Hussain Motagamwala and James Runde<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a plant-derived solvent called GVL (gamma-Valerolactone), University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering James Dumesic and his team have developed an economical and high-yielding way of producing furandicarboxylic acid, or FDCA. 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