Dr Matthew Bolte of James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, is using sunlight to convert furfural into building blocks for highly valuable pharma products
Furfural is a pharmaceutical building block .. see http://j.mp/1d7HsHp or http://j.mp/1d7HsHp
See on www.biospectrumasia.com
100 years ago, the first commercial production of furfural started in the USA.
Keep it simple! Making furfural is not rocket science.
It’s all about the integrating furfural production into the mass and energy balance of a pulp or sugar mill,
The total operating cost (raw materials, utilities, fixed costs and depreciation costs) estimated to produce PEF was about $2,700/ton in Q2 2015.
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