Improving biomass transformation catalysis with a combined nanomaterials and spectroscopy rational design approach

结合纳米材料和光谱合理设计方法改善生物质转化催化

• 批准号: 2115415
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2115415
• 关键词: Improving; biomass; transformation; catalysis; combined

Heterogeneous (solid) catalysts underpin the manufacture of > 90% of fuels and chemicals and the chemicals sector contributes £50bn yr-1 to the UK economy. The need to develop new or improved catalysts (more efficient, selective, cheaper, greener) has never been greater, with an expanding, more developed population, depletion of fossil resources and enormous concerns about global warming. The key enabler in delivering the catalysts needed is systematic insight into the molecular / atomic mechanisms that control catalyst function.This project will use "idealized" catalyst structures to provide mechanistic insight into a key biomass-to chemicals transformations of platform molecules (e.g. furfural, a promising "platform molecule" readily obtainable from sugar and providing access to a number of adhesive/resin/solvent and plastics intermediates (all currently fossil derived).The catalyst structures will be synthesized using nano-chemistry techniques. The uniformity obtained enables the reliable use of spectroscopic handles for the catalysts' charge transfer and acid/base properties - key mechanistic parameters we want to understand.

多相（固体）催化剂支撑着90%以上的燃料和化学品的生产，化学品行业每年为英国经济贡献500亿英镑。开发新的或改进的催化剂（更有效，更有选择性，更便宜，更环保）的需求从未如此之大，人口不断扩大，更发达，化石资源枯竭以及对全球变暖的巨大担忧。提供所需催化剂的关键推动力是对控制催化剂功能的分子/原子机制的系统洞察。该项目将使用“理想化”催化剂结构来提供对平台分子的关键生物质到化学品转化的机理洞察（例如糠醛，一种很有前途的“平台分子”，易于从糖中获得，并提供了许多粘合剂/树脂/溶剂和塑料中间体（催化剂结构将使用纳米化学技术合成。所获得的均匀性使光谱手柄能够可靠地用于催化剂的电荷转移和酸/碱性质-我们想要了解的关键机械参数。

项目成果

Nickel-Catalysed Vapour-Phase Hydrogenation of Furfural, Insights into Reactivity and Deactivation

• DOI: 10.1007/s11244-020-01341-9
• 发表时间: 2020-07-30
• 期刊: TOPICS IN CATALYSIS
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: MacIntosh, Kathryn L.;Beaumont, Simon K.
• 通讯作者: Beaumont, Simon K.