JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2024
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IF 8.1
Jia Cheng,Zhiwei Zeng,Xun Huang,Zidong Wei
The electrocatalytic oxidation of furfural (FA) for the production of valuable chemicals, such as 2-furancarboxylic acid (FAC), presents an attractive alternative to the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction during water electrolysis for hydrogen production. However, the activity and stability of the current electrocatalysts still require further enhancement. In this study, NiMoP is fabricated on Ni foam through pulsed electrodeposition to facilitate the electrooxidation of FA for FAC production in an alkaline environment. A low voltage of 1.43 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) is adequate to achieve a current density of 500 mA cm −2 , with FAC selectivity and Faraday efficiency reaching 97.5 % and 95.2 %, respectively. The extended electrolysis of FA using a continuous-flow electrolytic cell under high current density (500 mA cm −2 ) demonstrates consistent stability at a cell voltage around 1.8 V over a 35-h duration.
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化学工程
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电催化
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BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2020
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IF 3.475
Yu Zhang,Xiaohui Di,Wen Wang,Miaojia Song,Qiang Yu,Zhongming Wang,Zhenhong Yuan,Xiaoyan Chen,Huijuan Xu,Ying Guo
Methyl-2-furoate (MF) is a high-value compound, and can be produced via esterification of furoic acid derived from biobased furfural. Herein, CAL-B and [bmim][PF 6 ] were the most efficient lipase and organic medium for MF production, respectively. Based on mass action law and reaction reversibility, a mathematical model was developed. Data analysis showed the newly proposed binary regression was apparently more suitable compared to the commonly used unitary regression. The enzymatic promotion factor m i for esterification and hydrolysis was 1.8159 and 0, while the alcohol inhibition factor n i was 0 and 0.06436, respectively. Both the activation energy E a, i for esterification and hydrolysis was 84 kJ/mol, and the pre-exponential factor A i was 7.1408×10 13 and 7.8962×10 13 , respectively. Kinetics study demonstrated that CAL-B held significantly more dominant esterification activity compared to hydrolysis activity, whereas alcohol just inhibited hydrolysis activity instead of esterification activity, and the relationship between esterification/hydrolysis rate constants k i and temperature agreed with Arrhenius equation. The maximum MF yield was 82.5 % at 24 h, and the yield decreased to 75.4 % after 1 re-use of CAL-B, but maintained about 20 % for next 4 cycles. Totally, the developed model and binary regression analysis method is ideal for in-depth examination of lipase-catalyzed kinetics in heterogeneous system.
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生物化学
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酶工程
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ACS Catalysis
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2025
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IF 13.1
Ruiqi Fang,Jie Kang,Fengliang Wang,Xin Zhao,Yingwei Li
The production of valerate esters, a class of transportation biofuels (additives), usually undergoes alternate hydrogenation and acid-catalysis dehydration processes that suffer from inevitable coke deposition and undesirable side reactions. We report a one-pot esterification–hydrogenolysis reaction pathway for valeric biofuels synthesis from biomass-derived 2-furoic acid, which was proceeded over the elaborate CoPtX@Co3O4-NC (X = 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, and 0.1) catalysts. The catalysts were constructed through a MOF-engaged etching-pyrolysis-replacement strategy to obtain mesoporous pocket cube nanoboxes-in-nanobox morphology and uniform CoPtX@Co3O4 core–shell nanoparticles with Pt moieties in tunable content and size (from single-atom scale to 2.4 nm). The obtained acid-free CoPtX@Co3O4-NC catalyst achieved an average 92.2% yield of ethyl valerate at a complete conversion of 2-furoic acid, and the reaction ran steadily in a microchannel continuous flow reactor for at least 200 h, which also inhibited the byproduct generation and coke deposition. A mechanistic study suggested that 2-furoic acid was preferably adsorbed on the oxyphilic Co3O4 shell for esterification initially; then the generated esters underwent sequential and exclusive hydrogenolysis steps over the CoPt core to yield valerate esters. The high industrial application prospect of this reaction pathway was additionally highlighted by producing 12 kinds of valeric biofuels from 2-furoic acid and the corresponding C1 ∼ C7 primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols.
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化学工程
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催化材料科学
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GREEN CHEMISTRY
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2014
·Vol. 16
·期 5
·2762-2770
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IF 6.852
Zehui Zhang,Bing Liu,Kangle Lv,Jie Sun,Kejan Deng
In this study, we have successfully prepared a heterogeneous catalyst (K-10 clay-Mo) by the immobilization of bis(acetylacetonato) dioxo-molybdenum(VI) [MoO2(acac)2] on montmorillonite K-10 clay. The structure of the resultant catalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electronic microscopy (TEM), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The catalytic activity of K-10 clay-Mo was tested in the aerobic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Although a molecule of HMF contains one hydroxyl group and one aldehyde group, to our surprise, the catalyst showed high catalytic activity for the oxidation of the aldehyde group of HMF into 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxylic acid (HMFCA). A variety of important reaction parameters such as the reaction temperature, catalyst amount, and solvent were explored. HMFCA could be obtained in a high yield of 86.9% with a HMF conversion of 100% after a short reaction time of 3 h in toluene. More importantly, the catalyst K-10 clay-Mo could be reused several times without a significant loss of its catalytic activity.
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化学工程
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催化材料
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