UW-Madison Engineers Produce Higher-Energy Liquid Transportation Fuel From Sugar

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-stage process for converting biomass-derived sugar into 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), a liquid transportation fuel with 40% greater energy density than ethanol.

The work by Professor James Dumesic and his research team, reported in the 21 June issue of the journal Nature, leverages the process they developed last year for the production of the chemical intermediate hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from sugar.

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