UFZ team demonstrates electrolysis of medium-chain carboxylic acids to aviation fuel at technical scale

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By mmillikinAug 31, 2023, 9:30 am272 pts
A team from Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (Leipzig, Germany) has shown the scale-up of the production of aviation drop-in fuel-like mixtures (mainly n-decane) that are obtained by Kolbe electrolysis of medium-chain carboxylic acids (n-hexanoic acid), which can be derived from biomass. A…

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