Considering the facts of fossil fuel depletion and environmental issues, the conversion of biomass into high value-added chemicals is of great importance. In this work, Ni and Co were encapsulated in lignin-derived phenolic resin spheres to obtain NiCo@LRS, which was then employed as a sacrificial template for the synthesis of the bimetallic catalyst NiCo@LC-RS. The Ni and Co act as the acid and dehydrogenation sites for the catalytic transfer hydrogenolysis of 2-phenoxy-1-phenylethanol ( pp-ol ) and corncob lignin, respectively, and exhibit a synergistic enhancement effect. Under the optimal conditions of 170 °C, 1 MPa N 2 and 4 h, the conversion of pp-ol reached 99.9 %, with the yields of cyclohexanol and ethylbenzene at 99.9 % and 93.8 %, respectively. The lignin was completely converted and the selectivity of monophenols was 55.74 %. The catalyst remained stable and reusable after 5 cycles. Furthermore, lignin oil can be employed in the preparation of Ni Co bimetallic catalysts, which have been demonstrated to exhibit excellent catalytic properties. This work provides practical guidance for the high-value utilisation of lignin.
Yingying Fang,Wenbo Zhou,Yihuan Cheng,Yuge Zhang,Tingting Yu,Shaoxian Song
The high-value utilization of steel pickling waste liquid (SPWL) is an important direction in the resourceful utilization of hazardous waste. In this study, nano-Fe 3 O 4 prepared from SPWL (S-Fe 3 O 4 ) was hydrothermally compounded with MnO 2 as Fe 3 O 4 -MnO 2 (SFM), which were compared with Fe 3 O 4 -MnO 2 (CFM) prepared by chemical reagents. The synthetic materials were evaluated by SEM, VSM, BET, XRD, and zeta potential, the results show that the spherical S-Fe 3 O 4 was encapsulated by spiny spherical shell-like MnO 2 , and the SFM has a high saturation magnetization and specific surface area (159.91 m 2 /g). The adsorption experiments demonstrated that the adsorption effect of SFM on Pb 2+ is highly similar to that of CFM. The maximal adsorption capacity of SFM reached 129.74 mg/g under ideal composite ratio and pH conditions, and the adsorption process was unaffected by competing heavy metal ions coexisting in the environment. Moreover, the high saturation magnetization strength of the SFM makes it simple to separate materials under a magnetic field. The pseudo-second-order kinetics and Langmuir isotherm models provided a good description of the Pb 2+ adsorption on SFM. XPS and FTIR analysis provided evidence that the adsorbent surface has a high concentration of -OH functional groups, and that O atoms serve as Pb 2+ binding sites, suggesting that ion exchange occurs during the SFM adsorption process. In this paper, we developed a cheap SFM with high adsorption performance and provided a novel approach to the high-value application of SPWL.