Fuel Processing with Multifunctional Catalysts

A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomass Catalysis".

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Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue “Fuel Processing with Multifunctional Catalysts” welcomes original and novel papers on all aspects of multifunctional catalysts for converting fossil and renewable resources to clean and value-added chemicals, which is a basic and practical concern for scientific researchers in both industrial and academic fields. This Special Issue seeks to publish high-impact contributions with an emphasis on the development of sustainable multifunctional catalysts, new catalytic materials, reactions and mechanistic processes, new process technologies for the production of clean energy, and catalytic processes for converting wastes into useful products.

Dr. Venkata D. B. C. Dasireddy
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Keywords

  • Green chemistry
  • Environmental catalysis
  • Nano-structured catalysts
  • Multifunctional catalysts
  • Renewable energy materials
  • Heterogeneous catalysis

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Novel Functionality of Lithium-Impregnated Titania as Nanocatalyst
by Indu Ambat, Varsha Srivastava, Esa Haapaniemi and Mika Sillanpää
Catalysts 2019, 9(11), 943; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal9110943 - 09 Nov 2019
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The present work incorporates the synthesis of a multifunctional catalyst for the transesterification of waste cooking oil (WCO) to biodiesel and recovery of rare earth elements (REEs). For this purpose, TiO2 nanoparticles and TiO2 doped with lithium ions were prepared. The [...] Read more.
The present work incorporates the synthesis of a multifunctional catalyst for the transesterification of waste cooking oil (WCO) to biodiesel and recovery of rare earth elements (REEs). For this purpose, TiO2 nanoparticles and TiO2 doped with lithium ions were prepared. The influence of lithium ions on the catalytic performance of TiO2 was attained by impregnation of the different molar ratios of lithium hydroxide to bare TiO2. Then each catalyst was screened for catalytic conversion of WCO to fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) and also for REEs recovery. All synthesized materials were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) analysis, and Hammett indicator for the basicity test. The obtained biodiesel was characterized by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS), 1H, and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Moreover, the physical parameters of the synthesized biodiesel were also determined. The REEs recovery efficiency of synthesized nanomaterials was investigated, and the percentage of REEs removal was determined by inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). Full article
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