(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-12) Aristizábal M., Valentina; Parra R., Daniela; Pisarenko, Yuri A.; Cardona A., Carlos Ariel
Nowadays, there is a big attention paid on furan derivatives and catalytic processes, mainly to
convert the sugars contained in lignocellulosic biomass. In this sense, the furfural also receives special
attention as potential chemical building blocks for the production of bio products and biofuels. Due to the
difficulties presented in the separation of furfural in the conventional process, this paper presents the
separation analysis to obtain furfural of high purity from xylose dehydrated by reactive distillation as
unconventional process. The basic theory of static analysis is used to acquire the best information of the
reactive distillation process. This allows obtaining a technological scheme that achieves a mole fraction of
about 0.9 furfural.
