Table 1. Thermal and catalytic conversion of various biomass-derived model compounds when using an E-cat FCC catalyst and a reaction temperature of 500 °C in a fixed bed laboratory reactor for 60 s. The selectivity is expressed as a distribution in wt% of the hydrocarbon products analysed. SiC was used as inert material in the reactor to simulate thermal cracking, while nr in the table implies not reported values.

Model compound	Thermal or catalytic cracking	Conversion (%)	Yields (wt%)
			Hydrocarbons	Oxygenates	H2	CO2	CO	H2O	Coke	Unknown
Methanol	SiC	22.6	0.2	5.4	2.4	0.8	nr	13.6	0.2	nr
	E-cat	60.8	7.1	4.0	3.5	12.2	nr	27.0	5.5	1.7
Acetic acid	SiC	45.0	10.4	5.0	17.5	8.2	nr	3.6	0.3	nr
	E-cat	50.4	4.2	5.2	6.6	22.9	nr	9.9	1.6	nr
Methyl acetate	SiC	95.3	0.4	81.6	5.2	3.0	nr	4.7	0.4	nr
	E-cat	95.1	0.9	54.5	3.7	22.2	nr	6.4	7.4	nr
Furfural	SiC	21.6	5.3	0.7	6.7	1.1	nr	6.8	1.0	nr
	E-cat	78.2	32.1	9.0	5.7	9.6	1.8	12.8	7.2	nr
3-Methyl-2-penta-none	SiC	24.9	0.3	17.9	0.6	1.2	nr	3.1	0.1	1.7
	E-cat	79.6	37.6	20.7	0.5	1.1	nr	13.7	5.9	nr
2-Hidroxy-3-methyl-cyclopentenone	SiC	37.7	5.0	14.4	3.7	1.9	nr	10.0	0.7	2.0
	E-cat	84.5	14.0	9.4	8.1	35.7	1.2	2.3	12.8	1.0
Phenol	SiC	8.2	0.2	nr	1.1	4.0	nr	2.8	0.1	nr
	E-cat	54.9	34.9	2.0	1.6	4.0	nr	8.0	4.4	nr
Syringol	SiC	56.7	0.4	39.0	3.0	7.5	nr	6.0	0.8	nr
	E-cat	75.0	2.1	32.5	4.1	22.9	nr	4.9	8.5	nr
Trimethoxy-benzene	SiC	97.1	57.8	3.4	2.3	32.9	0.3	nr	0.4	nr
	E-cat	95.7	47.1	0.2	2.3	29.8	0.3	nr	16.0	nr