Advances in production of bio-based ester fuels with heterogeneous bifunctional catalysts

H Zhang, H Li, Y Hu, KTV Rao, CC Xu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Dwindling oil reserves, concerns over climate changes related to CO 2 emissions, and
increasing demands on energy have intensified the interest and efforts in the utilization of …

Glycerol to solketal for fuel additive: recent progress in heterogeneous catalysts

I Fatimah, I Sahroni, G Fadillah, MM Musawwa… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Biodiesel has been successfully commercialized in numerous countries. Glycerol, as a
byproduct in biodiesel production plant, has been explored recently for fuel additive …

Carbon-increasing catalytic strategies for upgrading biomass into energy-intensive fuels and chemicals

H Li, A Riisager, S Saravanamurugan, A Pandey… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant organic carbon source and has received a
great deal of interest as renewable and sustainable feedstock for the production of potential …

Supported MoOx and WOx Solid Acids for Biomass Valorization: Interplay of Coordination Chemistry, Acidity, and Catalysis

P Sudarsanam, NK Gupta, B Mallesham, N Singh… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Supported molybdenum oxide (MoO x) and tungsten oxide (WO x) materials are a vital class
of solid acid catalysts for the chemical industry because of their nontoxic nature, strong …

Exploring the Brønsted acidity of UiO-66 (Zr, Ce, Hf) metal–organic frameworks for efficient solketal synthesis from glycerol acetalization

VR Bakuru, SR Churipard, SP Maradur… - Dalton …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Zr, Ce, Hf-based isostructural UIO-66 MOFs exhibited varying degree of Brønsted acidity
(UiO-66 (Hf)> UiO-66 (Ce)> UiO-66 (Zr)) on their secondary building units owing to the …

Synthesis of oxygenated additive fuels from bio-renewable glycerol using sulfated Zr-Al based heterogeneous acid catalyst

S Maurya, YC Sharma - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
The exponential growth of biodiesel production generates an enormous amount of glycerol
as a by-product that requires effective strategies to convert it into valuable chemicals to …

Effect of nitric acid modification of montmorillonite clay on synthesis of solketal from glycerol and acetone

MN Timofeeva, VN Panchenko, VV Krupskaya… - Catalysis …, 2017 - Elsevier
The effect of acid modification of a natural montmorillonite clay (MM) by HNO 3 on the
catalytic properties of MM from Dash-Salakhlinsk (Kazakhstan) has been investigated in the …

Effective production of biodiesel from non-edible oil using facile synthesis of imidazolium salts-based Brønsted-Lewis solid acid and co-solvent

H Pan, H Li, H Zhang, A Wang, D Jin, S Yang - Energy conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Developing an efficient one-pot catalytic process for biodiesel production from non-edible
oils under mild reaction conditions remains challenging. Here, a novel process for the one …

Niobium: The Focus on Catalytic Application in the Conversion of Biomass and Biomass Derivatives

L Oliveira, M Pereira, A Pacheli Heitman, J Filho… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The world scenario regarding consumption and demand for products based on fossil fuels
has demonstrated the imperative need to develop new technologies capable of using …

Reaction kinetic study of solketal production from glycerol ketalization with acetone

V Rossa, YSP Pessanha, GC Díaz… - Industrial & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The best conditions for the kinetic study of the ketalization reaction of glycerol with acetone
for the production of solketal using zeolite H-BEA (SAR 19) as a catalyst were found through …