A Breakthrough Is Something You Don't See Coming Preface

Abstract We here report our studies on the upgrading of flash pyrolysis oil using an improved alcohol treatment method. The method consists of treating pyrolysis oil with a high boiling alcohol like n-butanol in the presence of a (solid) acid catalyst at 323–353 K under reduced pressure (

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