The purpose of the polyols from biomass LIBPF process model is to simulate the process for the conversion of biomass feedstocks to polyols of short-chain carbohydrates.
The process scheme is based on IPCI process type 3:
and US patent 6479713 (T A Werpy, J G Frye Jr., A H Zacher, D J Miller: Hydrogenolysis of 5-carbon sugars, sugar alcohols, and other methods and compositions for reactions involving hydrogen, Battelle Memorial Institute - 2001):
Have a look at the C++ source code, download the sample results in the form of the mass and energy balance table or download and play with the interactive model developed with LIBPF 0.9:
The demo requirements are:
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operating system: Window 2000, XP, Vista or W7
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Administrator access to the computer during installation
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[optional] Excel 2003 or later for displaying the mass and energy balance table
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[optional] OpenOffice 3.0 or later for displaying the mass and energy balance table