FIELD: chemistry.
SUBSTANCE: one version involves providing water and a water-soluble oxygen-containing hydrocarbon, including a C1+O1+ hydrocarbon, in an aqueous liquid phase and/or vapour phase, providing H2, conducting liquid and/or vapour-phase catalytic reaction of the oxygen-containing hydrocarbon with H2 in the presence of a deoxygenation catalyst at deoxygenation temperature and at deoxygenation pressure to obtain a reaction stream of oxygenate which contains a C1+O1-3 hydrocarbon, and conducting liquid and/or vapour-phase catalytic reaction of the oxygenate in the presence of a condensation catalyst at condensation temperature and at condensation pressure to obtain a C4-30 compound, where the C4-30 compound includes a compound selected from a group consisting of C4-30 alcohol, C4-30 ketone, C4-30 alkane, C4-30 alkene, C5-30 cycloalkane, C5-30 cycloalkene, aryl, condensed aryl and mixture thereof; and where (a) the deoxygenation catalyst and the condensation catalyst are chemically different, or (b) deoxygenation temperature ranges from about 80°C to about 300°C, and condensation temperature ranges from about 325°C to about 375°C. The invention also relates to apparatus for realising said method.
EFFECT: invention provides a method of processing biomass using catalytic methods.
20 cl, 56 ex, 13 tbl, 19 dwg
