Background
Type: Book Chapter

Higher alcohols: applications as fuels and chemicals

Journal: ()Year: 1 January 2023Volume: Issue: Pages: 1 - 17
Amiri H.a Tabatabaei M. Nizami A.-S.

Abstract

Alcohols have high potential as fuels, solvents, and building blocks for the production of a wide range of chemicals. To become a proper fuel, candidates should pass several assessments based on the physical properties such as density and viscosity and chemical properties such as combustion energy. The primary aliphatic alcohols between C3 and C7, the so-called higher alcohols, have recently attracted interest owing to their possible production from renewable carbohydrate resources through microbial pathways. In this chapter, different features of the higher alcohols are discussed to assess their potential as liquid fuels, reagents in synthetic chemistry, or solvents in industry. The considerable potentials of higher alcohols justify the enormous research efforts on developing synthetic pathways for their efficient microbial synthesis. © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


Author Keywords

energy densityHigher alcoholsliquid fuelsolventsynthetic chemistry