The recent rising demand of renewable energies and climate changes has been driving
intensive academic researches into new chemical routes to sustainable and clean fuel …

Biodiesel produced from triglycerides and/or free fatty acids (FFAs) by transesterification and
esterification has attracted immense attention during the past decades as a biodegradable …

Effective solid acid catalysts play a key role to produce high-quality biodiesel through
triglyceride transesterification. The present work describes a facile technique for the …

A series of highly active, selective, and stable silver-exchanged phosphotungstic acid
(AgPW) catalysts were prepared, characterized, and evaluated for bio-derived glycerol …

The esterification of palmitic acid with methanol was studied over mesoporous sulfated
zirconia (SZ) solid acid catalyst, prepared by using CTAB cationic surfactant as a template …

Aerogel sulfated zirconia (A-SZr) solid acid catalyst was prepared by sol–gel method
followed by supercritical drying (SCD) using n-propanol as alcoholic solvent. For …

Metal organic framework UiO‐66 is studied as an adaptable heterogeneous catalyst for
glucose conversion. UiO‐66 was modified by; i) partial linker substitution, ii) particle size …

Ethyl esters were synthesized by simultaneous esterification and transesterification
reactions, using Jatropha curcas L. oil as raw material and sulphated zirconia (SZ) as …

To develop heterogeneous and reusable catalyst for the esterification of fatty acids, in
presence of triglycerides, sulfate species has been incorporated over Ce/ZrO 2–TiO 2 …

Sulfated zirconia catalysts were prepared by a direct sulfation method and were admixed
with a CuO–ZnO–ZrO2 catalyst for the direct synthesis of DME from CO2 hydrogenation. The …