Abstract
Biofuels such as renewable alkanes and higher alcohols have drawn considerable interests for the use in internal combustion engines. Especially, higher alcohols could be used as a blending agent for diesel fuels. Herein, carbon supported phosphated ruthenium-molybdenum (RuMoP) catalysts were employed in continuous trickle-bed reactor for converting sorbitol into renewable alkanes and higher alcohols. The results showed that RuMoP on an active carbon (AC) support presented a complete sorbitol conversion and high yields of alkanes and alcohols in gasoline and diesel range. Subsequently, carbon nanotube (CNT) supported RuMoP was prepared and studied in detail for comparison. RuMoP/CNT presented a low C−C bond cracking property in sorbitol conversion and high selectivity of C6 products in gas-phase (C6 alkane, 74.7 %) and oil-phase (C6 alkane and alcohols, 87.8 %). Finally, detailed characterizations (N2-adsorption, XRD, HRTEM, XPS, NH3-TPD, Py-IR spectrums, etc.) were performed over relevant catalysts (RuMoP/C and RuMoP/CNT) for correlating their catalytic and physicochemical properties.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 5046-5052 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | ChemCatChem |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 7 Nov 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
Keywords
- Alkanes
- Bimetallic
- Biomass conversion
- Higher alcohols
- Hydrodeoxygenation
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