Biodiesel Production on Monometallic Pt, Pd, Ru, and Ag Catalysts Supported on Natural Zeolite.
Paweł MierczyńskiMagdalena MosińskaŁukasz SzkudlarekKarolina ChałupkaMisa TatsuzawaMarwa Al MaskariWaldemar ManiukiewiczSatriyo K WahonoKrasimir VasilevMalgorzata Iwona Szynkowska-JozwikPublished in: Materials (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)
Biodiesel production from rapeseed oil and methanol via transesterification reaction facilitated by various monometallic catalyst supported on natural zeolite (NZ) was investigated. The physicochemical characteristics of the synthesized catalysts were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method (BET), temperature-programmed-reduction in hydrogen (H2-TPR), temperature-programmed-desorption of ammonia (NH3-TPD), Scanning Electron Microscope equipped with EDX detector (SEM-EDS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) methods. The highest activity and methyl ester yields were obtained for the Pt/NZ catalyst. This catalyst showed the highest triglycerides conversion of 98.9% and fatty acids methyl esters yields of 94.6%. The activity results also confirmed the high activity of the carrier material (NZ) itself in the investigated reaction. Support material exhibited 90.5% of TG conversion and the Fatty Acid Methyl Esters yield (FAME) of 67.2%. Introduction of noble metals improves the TG conversion and FAME yield values. Increasing of the metal loading from 0.5 to 2 wt.% improves the reactivity properties of the investigated catalysts.
Keyphrases
- highly efficient
- fatty acid
- room temperature
- metal organic framework
- high resolution
- electron microscopy
- visible light
- ionic liquid
- carbon dioxide
- atomic force microscopy
- reduced graphene oxide
- magnetic resonance imaging
- transition metal
- risk assessment
- mass spectrometry
- single molecule
- dual energy
- quantum dots
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