Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Continuous Flow Upgrading of Selected C2–C6 Platform Chemicals Derived from Biomass

R Gerardy, DP Debecker, J Estager, P Luis… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ever increasing industrial production of commodity and specialty chemicals inexorably
depletes the finite primary fossil resources available on Earth. The forecast of population …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic evaluation of physicochemical properties for the selection of alternative liquid organic hydrogen carriers

E Díaz, P Rapado-Gallego, S Ordóñez - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Chemical hydrogen storage is a key step for establishing hydrogen as a main energy vector.
For this purpose, liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) present the outstanding …

Hydrogenation of γ-Butyrolactone to 1,4-Butanediol over CuCo/TiO2 Bimetallic Catalysts

Z Huang, KJ Barnett, JP Chada, ZJ Brentzel, Z Xu… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Titania-supported monometallic and bimetallic Cu–Co catalysts were prepared using (co)
impregnation and studied for the hydrogenation of γ-butyrolactone (GBL) to 1, 4-butanediol …

Enhancing the Ethynylation Performance of CuO-Bi2O3 Nanocatalysts by Tuning Cu-Bi Interactions and Phase Structures

Z Wang, Z Niu, Q Hao, L Ban, H Li, Y Zhao, Z Jiang - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
Catalytic systems consisting of copper oxide and bismuth oxide are commonly employed for
the industrial production of 1, 4-butynediol (BD) through ethynylation. However, few studies …

Sustaining the Transition from a petrobased to a Biobased Chemical Industry with Flow Chemistry

R Gérardy, R Morodo, J Estager, P Luis… - Accounts on Sustainable …, 2020 - Springer
In the current context of transitioning to more sustainable chemical processes, the upgrading
of biobased platform molecules (ie, the chemical transformation of widely available low …

Preparation of highly dispersed Cu catalysts from hydrotalcite precursor for the dehydrogenation of 1, 4-butanediol

H Liu, Y Jiang, H Zhao, Z Hou - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Copper-based catalysts are widely used in methanol synthesis, selective catalytic reduction
of NO x, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation and hydrogenolysis reactions. In this work, a …

[HTML][HTML] Formic acid assisted synthesis of Cu-CuO-ZnO composite catalyst for acceptor free selective dehydrogenation of 1, 4-butanediol to γ-butrylactone

P Gidyonu, A Nagu, S Gundekari, M Varkolu - Catalysis Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cu-CuO-ZnO composite catalyst synthesized through the formic acid-assisted
method, underwent thorough characterization via XRD, N 2 physisorption, TPR, TPD, TGA …

Ethane dehydrogenation over the single-atom alloy catalysts: Screening out the excellent catalyst with the dual descriptors

Y Zhang, B Wang, M Fan, D Li, R Zhang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Single atom alloys (SAAs) catalysts become potential to provide excellent activity, selectivity,
and stability toward the selective dehydrogenation of light alkanes by activating the desired …

Selective vapour-phase dehydrocyclization of biomass-derived 1, 4-butanediol to γ-butyrolactone over Cu/ZnAl2O4-CeO2 catalyst

KN Patil, D Prasad, VK Manoorkar… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Production of γ-butyrolactone (GBL) from vapour-phase dehydrocyclization of biomass
derived 1, 4-butanediol is considered as more sustainable and significantly commercial …