CATALYTIC TRANSFORMATION OF BIO-DERIVED PLATFORM MOLECULES

生物衍生平台分子的催化转化

• 批准号: EP/J017833/1
• 负责人: Asterios Gavriilidis
• 金额: $ 87.93万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FJ017833%2F1
• 关键词: CATALYTIC; TRANSFORMATION; BIO; DERIVED; PLATFORM

Humanity has enjoyed the benefits of the industrial revolution and has built a technologically sophisticated civilization based on oil. However, it is now waking up to the reality that the fossil fuels are not going to last forever. A paradigm shift, from reliance on fossil fuels to renewable resources, and a chemical industry transition to sustainable processes are needed to meet the challenges of resource depletion and climate disruption. Nature produces a vast amount of 170 billion metric tons of biomass per year by photosynthesis. Surprisingly, only a few percent is used by humans for food and non-food purposes. The size of this production is sufficient to supply virtually all of the raw materials now required for the chemical industry. Thus, biomass compounds are the most abundant renewable resources available, and they are currently viewed as a feedstock for the green chemistry of the future. In direct analogy to a petroleum refinery, which produces fuels and chemicals from crude oil, a biorefinery is a facility that produces multiple products, including fuel, power, and bulk or fine chemicals, from biomass. Even though catalysis is regarded as a key enabling technology for biomass conversion, its deployment in biorefineries is still limited. More importantly, several of the catalysts used for biomass conversion are based on catalyst technology developed specifically for petroleum refining. Petroleum feedstocks are basically hydrophobic, in stark contrast to biomass hydrophilic, high oxygen content feedstocks. Hence, new catalytic processes are urgently needed with specifically tailored catalysts. This presents a unique opportunity which is yet to be exploited by the £12 Billion global catalyst market. The complexity of the challenge cannot be met by single individuals, because innovation requires interdisciplinary research that integrates methods, skills and strengths of different disciplines. In line with this winning strategy, we intend to bring about a sizable step change in catalytic process development methodology by building on the diverse expertise of the team members, which includes catalytic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, microreactor technology, systems engineering, in situ spectroscopy. This approach will ensure a level of understanding of biomass conversion processes that would enable the rapid evaluation of novel catalyst and catalytic processes. One unique feature of this research project is that we will develop rapid reaction profiling methodologies based on close interaction of experimental and theoretical investigations.

人类享受了工业革命的好处，并建立了以石油为基础的技术先进的文明。然而，现在人们开始意识到一个现实，即化石燃料不会永远持续下去。为了应对资源枯竭和气候破坏的挑战，需要从依赖化石燃料向可再生资源的范式转变，以及化学工业向可持续进程的过渡。自然界每年通过光合作用产生大量的1700亿吨生物质。令人惊讶的是，只有几个百分点被人类用于食物和非食物目的。这种生产的规模足以供应化学工业现在所需的几乎所有原材料。因此，生物质化合物是可用的最丰富的可再生资源，目前它们被视为未来绿色化学的原料。与从原油中生产燃料和化学品的炼油厂直接类似，生物炼油厂是一种从生物质中生产多种产品的设施，包括燃料、电力和散装或精细化学品。尽管催化被认为是生物质转化的关键使能技术，但它在生物炼油厂的应用仍然有限。更重要的是，用于生物质转化的几种催化剂是基于专门为石油精炼开发的催化剂技术。石油原料基本上是疏水性的，与生物质亲水性、高含氧量的原料形成鲜明对比。因此，迫切需要新的催化工艺和专门定制的催化剂。这为全球120亿GB催化剂市场提供了一个尚未开发的独特机会。这一挑战的复杂性不是单个人所能应对的，因为创新需要整合不同学科的方法、技能和优势的跨学科研究。根据这一制胜战略，我们打算通过团队成员的不同专业知识，包括催化化学、合成有机化学、微反应器技术、系统工程和原位光谱分析，在催化过程开发方法方面带来重大的变化。这种方法将确保对生物质转化过程有一定程度的了解，从而能够对新型催化剂和催化过程进行快速评价。这项研究项目的一个独特之处是，我们将在实验和理论研究密切互动的基础上开发快速反应图谱方法。

项目成果

Enhanced Performance of Oxidation of Rosalva (9-decen-1-ol) to Costenal (9-decenal) on Porous Silicon-Supported Silver Catalyst in a Microstructured Reactor

微结构反应器中多孔硅负载银催化剂上 Rosalva (9-decen-1-ol) 氧化成 Costenal (9-decenal) 的增强性能

• DOI: 10.3390/pr2010141
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Processes
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Cao E

Deactivation Behavior of Supported Gold Palladium Nanoalloy Catalysts during the Selective Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol in a Micropacked Bed Reactor

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.7b01159
• 发表时间: 2017-06
• 期刊: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Noor Al-Rifai;Peter J. Miedziak;M. Morad;M. Sankar;C. Waldron;S. Cattaneo;E. Cao;Samuel Pattisson;D. Morgan;D. Bethell;G. Hutchings;A. Gavriilidis

26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

第 26 届欧洲计算机辅助过程工程研讨会

• DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-63428-3.50344-1
• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Delval F

A Hydrodynamic Study of Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation in a Micro-Packed Bed Reactor

微填充床反应器中苯甲醇氧化的流体动力学研究

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Al-Rifai, N.

Microreaction technology aided catalytic process design

• DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2013.05.004
• 发表时间: 2013-08
• 期刊: Current opinion in chemical engineering
• 影响因子: 6.6
• 作者: Noor Al-Rifai;E. Cao;V. Dua;A. Gavriilidis