Chinese Female Students Discover Oil Substitutes from Crop Straws
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Transtlate Two female doctoral students from Nanjing University of Technology recently announced that they have discovered oil substitutes from low-cost plants, such as crop straws, dried sweet potato and sugar cane. If their achievements can be utilized in industrial production, it will likely ease the world's excessive reliance on oil.
Li Heng and Sun Peng, two female doctoral students at Nanjing University of Technology, have used biological materials to produce two types of chemical raw materials that are widely used in the medical, food, daily chemical, water soluble paint and paper-making sectors. Their technological achievements have already been reported on and highly praised by international authoritative magazines.
Through numerous experiments, the two students finally used sorbic alcohol and lactic acid that can be made from low-cost biological materials including crop straws as the base materials to produce the widely-used chemical anhydro sorbitol and acrylic acid.
They not only discovered the two base materials with high cost performance, but also used their independently-innovated catalysts during the process to transform the base materials into chemical raw materials and enhance the transformation ratio.
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