Acquisition and Physico-Chemical Data Analysis of Oxygenated Compounds From Biomass Using Microfluidics

Abstract

Global warming-related climate change demands prompt actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly carbon dioxide. To reduce GHGs, biomass-based biofuels containing oxygenated compounds represent a promising alternative of energy source. To convert biomass into energy, a variety of conversion processes performed at high pressure and high temperature conditions are required, and the design of such processes need as support, thermophysical property data, particularly thermal conductivity . The conventional methods to measure thermal conductivity are often time consuming and/or requires important quantities of products. Microfluidics has been proven as an appropriate support to overcome these issues thanks to its low reagent consumption, fast screening, low operating time, improvement of heat and mass transfers etc. It allows the automated manipulation, performing high throughput experimentation. In addition, over the last 10 years, a new field of investigation called "high pressure and high temperature (HP-HT) microfluidics" [1] has gained increasing interest, in particular for the determination of the thermo-physical properties of fluids systems[2] [3]. Currently, available methods for measuring thermal conductivity in microfluidics are not adapted to HP-HT conditions . Also, thermal conductivity data of oxygenated compounds are scarce in literature or not available in extreme conditions. Therefore, the use of alternative methods such as models, combined with microfluidics, are essential to complement experimental data. Machine learning (ML)