Hydrogenation of levulinic acid with and without external hydrogen over Ni/SBA-15 catalyst

Applied Petrochemical Research - Tập 8 - Trang 153-162 - 2018
Mohan Varkolu1, Hari Babu Bathula2,3, Young-Woong Suh2,3, David Raju Burri1, Seetha Rama Rao Kamaraju1
1Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India
2Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
3Research Institute of Industrial Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Tóm tắt

A series of Ni/SBA-15 catalysts were prepared by impregnation method for the hydrogenation of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone in a fixed bed reactor at atmospheric pressure. The catalysts were characterized by XRD, TPR, AAS, Pulse chemisorption, SEM-EDAX, TEM, BET Surface area and XPS. The catalyst 30 wt% Ni/SBA-15 exhibited excellent catalytic performance (97% yield) at 250 °C due to the presence of superior number of active surface Ni species. While 30 wt% Ni/SiO2 catalyst showed lower catalytic activity (87% yield) at about similar conversion. The co-feeding of formic acid (FA) and water (impurities) with levulinic acid was also evaluated over 30 wt% Ni/SBA-15 which yielded excellent levulinic acid conversion. The noteworthy results were obtained at a molar ratio of FA/LA = 5. The constant catalytic activity during 10 h experiment with an external H2 flow has showed the sturdiness of the Ni/SBA-15 catalyst. On the other hand, a slight decrease in conversion as well as yield during the time-on-stream in the absence of external H2 flow was attributed to the accumulation of carbon species on the catalyst surface.

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