REDEP_Biofuels: Relevant energy data on the elucidation of pathways for biomass conversion to renewable fuels

Project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT) (Concurso de Projetos Exploratórios em Todos os Domínios Científicos 2023), grant 2023.13829.PEX. Funded amount: EUR 49,979.40, as stated by the source. Runs 2025-02-01 to 2026-07-31. Keywords: Thermodymanic Properties, Energy-Structure Correlations, Sustainable Chemistry, Quantum-chemical calculations, Exact sciences. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2026-07-23); national funding data, not CORDIS; selected because its keywords name quantum. Abstract given by the source: Biomass-derived fuels have the potential to reduce dependence on fossil-derived liquid fuels being expected that, in 2050, 27% of the global transport fuel can be sustainably supplied from biomass and waste resources. For this reason, the production of advanced biofuels through bio-oil upgrading is a topic that has been receiving much attention from both industry and academia in recent years. Despite its considerable economic impact, producing biofuels via biomass pyrolysis remains a major challenge. The bio-oil obtained is not immediately usable due to its viscosity, being also chemically unstable due to the presence of oxygenated compounds. An upgrading of bio-oil is essential, and several processes are involved, such as deoxygenation and hydrocracking, i.e., reaction of hydrogen with organic compounds to break long-chain molecules into lower molecular weight compounds. Several model compounds can be used to understand the reactivities of different components. Thus, to overcome the industrial challenges into the reaction mechanisms leading to advanced biofuels, a significant input of accurate thermodynamic data is required. These data allow evaluating the reactivity of the species and studying different sustainable pathways toward biofuels synthesis. In this context, this project intends to carry out a systematic experimental and computational study on key platform bio-based molecules. Our main goal is to evaluate the thermal and chemical stability of these compounds through the determination of the following thermodynamic properties: vapor pressures at different temperatures, enthalpy of possible transitions occurring at different temperatures in condensed phase, enthalpies and entropies of sublimation, as well as enthalpies of formation and Gibbs energies of formation, in crystalline phase and in gaseous phase. The compounds to be studied are derivatives of lactone and pyrone, generally considered good platform molecules in the production of high-value [shortened; the full text is on the OpenAIRE page]

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AI-assisted summary: The REDEP_Biofuels project, funded by FCT with a grant of EUR 49,979.40, runs from February 1, 2025, to July 31, 2026. It focuses on biomass conversion to renewable fuels, addressing challenges in bio-oil production and its properties. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.