Optimisation of the reaction parameters in a batch reactor and a CSTR for the recovery of phenol from hydrothermal biomass liquefaction

This work deals with the hydrothermal liquefaction of lignin. The focus laid on the discovery of the main reaction pathways within the depolymerisation of lignin-macromolecules and the discovery of bottleneck reactions. This was achieved by literature study and experimental work in both batch and continuous reactor. Modelling of the formal kinetics of the discovered reactions facilitated the evaluation of experimental results.