Synthesis of Sustainable Fuels and Intermediates from Ethanol and Methanol

Abstract Higher alcohols represent a highly interesting group of substances for fuels or as intermediates the production chemicals. Current pathways higher are based on fossil resources. Sustainable and largely available methanol CO 2 ethanol biomass. can be used to produce in heterogeneous catalytic process employing Guerbet reaction. The resulting mixture consists mainly branched linear with chain length distribution ranging from three eight carbon atoms. displays very advantageous properties fuel blend feedstock further processes jet synthetic naphtha.