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Fatima-Zahra Azar, Achraf El Kasmi, Maria Ángeles Lillo-Ródenas, Maria del Carmen Román-Martínez, Haichao Liu. Selective biomass conversion over novel designed tandem catalyst[J]. Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, 2024, 9(4): 508-517. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.001
Citation: Fatima-Zahra Azar, Achraf El Kasmi, Maria Ángeles Lillo-Ródenas, Maria del Carmen Román-Martínez, Haichao Liu. Selective biomass conversion over novel designed tandem catalyst[J]. Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, 2024, 9(4): 508-517. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.001
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Selective biomass conversion over novel designed tandem catalyst

doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.001
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    Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Institute, Faculty of Sciences, University of Alicante. Alicante E-03080, Spain

  • b.

    Sustainable Materials Research Center, University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Benguerir 43150, Morocco

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    Laboratory LSIA, ENSAH, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan 93030, Morocco

  • d.

    College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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  • Corresponding author: E-mail address: fatima-zahra.azar@um6p.ma (F.-Z. Azar)
  • Available Online: 2024-09-05
  • Publish Date: 2024-11-01
    Abstract
  • Selective conversion of biomass into targeted molecules like polyols, especially, from cellulosic compounds, is being widely investigated as a sustainable process to produce biodiesel and bio-additives. The known process involves two steps, namely hydrolysis and hydrogenation. Thus, it requires two different catalytic materials or bifunctional catalysts. In this context, the present work reports a new catalytic approach based on the use of tandem catalysts, consisting of the combination of an acid solid catalyst (active for hydrolysis) and a supported metal catalyst (active for hydrogenation). Two different functionalized activated carbons and the resin Amberlyst 15 have been tested as solid acid catalysts, and Ru nanoparticles supported on the original activated carbon (SA) are the metal catalyst part of the tandem. All the tested tandem catalysts exhibited higher activity than the supported Ru catalyst did. The highest cellulose conversion and selectivity to sorbitol (70% and 86%, respectively) have been obtained over a novel tandem catalyst, which resulted from a physical mixture between a sulfuric acid modified SA carbon (SASu) and Ru loaded SA (Ru/SA), leading to a tandem catalyst (Ru/SA+SASu). This novel-designed tandem catalyst is reusable. Based on tandem catalysts with a solid-solid system combination, the adopted novel-designed catalytic approach is cost-efficient and sustainable, and can be considered promising for the green production of high-added-value chemicals.

     

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