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Recent advances for the production of hydrocarbon biofuel via deoxygenation progress

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The current world energy crisis and increasing environmental concerns over global climate change from combusting fossil fuel are driving researchers into a new route to produce fuels via sustainable resource to meet the demands of human. In recent years, deoxygenation as an alternative method has been applied in the production of hydrocarbon fuels, particularly via the deoxygenation of fatty acids and triglycerides from seed oils and fats, producing hydrocarbon fuels entirely fungible with fossil fuels. The deoxygenation of biobased feedstock to fuel-like hydrocarbons is critically reviewed in this article. The review mainly discusses the use of feedstock, innovation of catalysts, and the reaction mechanism involved in the production of hydrocarbon fuels via deoxygenation progress.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21303109) and the Application Foundation Program of Sichuan Province (2013JY0007).

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    Dan Li, Xiangzhe Du, Xiaolei Hao, Qingxue Liu & Changwei Hu

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Li, D., Xin, H., Du, X. et al. Recent advances for the production of hydrocarbon biofuel via deoxygenation progress. Sci. Bull. 60, 2096–2106 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-015-0971-0

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