Comprehending the contemporary state of art in biogas enrichment and CO2 capture technologies via swing adsorption

G Shah, E Ahmad, KK Pant, VK Vijay - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biogas is a biorenewable energy resource that has the potential to serve as a possible
replacement for fossil fuels, especially natural gas and as a hydrogen carrier. However, raw …

Carbon-increasing catalytic strategies for upgrading biomass into energy-intensive fuels and chemicals

H Li, A Riisager, S Saravanamurugan, A Pandey… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant organic carbon source and has received a
great deal of interest as renewable and sustainable feedstock for the production of potential …

Residual sugarcane bagasse conversion in India: current status, technologies, and policies

S Quereshi, TK Naiya, A Mandal, S Dutta - Biomass Conversion and …, 2020 - Springer
The Indian sugar industry's growth and residual lignocellulosic sugarcane bagasse (RSB)
generation rate are complementary to each other. It is estimated that over 75–90 million …

Alternate biobased route to produce δ-Decalactone: Elucidating the role of solvent and hydrogen evolution in catalytic transfer hydrogenation

MI Alam, TS Khan, MA Haider - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A widely used food and flavor compound, δ-decalactone (DDL), was produced from catalytic
transfer hydrogenation of 6-amyl-α-pyrone (6PP), which is a biomass-based platform …

Understanding reaction kinetics, deprotonation and solvation of brønsted acidic protons in heteropolyacid catalyzed synthesis of biorenewable alkyl levulinates

E Ahmad, TS Khan, MI Alam, KK Pant… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
In search of a 'descriptor'for Brønsted acid-catalyzed biorenewable transformations in a
complex reaction environment, two concepts related to the reactivity of Brønsted acid …

Selective Hydrodeoxygenation of Vegetable Oils and Waste Cooking Oils to Green Diesel Using a Silica‐Supported Ir–ReOx Bimetallic Catalyst

S Liu, T Simonetti, W Zheng, B Saha - ChemSusChem, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High yields of diesel‐range alkanes are prepared by hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils
and waste cooking oils over ReOx‐modified Ir/SiO2 catalysts under mild reaction conditions …

Low temperature transformation of lignocellulose derived bioinspired molecules to aviation fuel precursor over magnesium–lanthanum mixed oxide catalyst

A Bohre, MI Alam, K Avasthi, F Ruiz-Zepeda… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Basic magnesium–lanthanum (Mg–La) mixed oxide materials with tunable
interaction between Mg and La oxides were prepared for the low temperature production of …

Acid functionalized ionic liquid catalyzed transformation of non-food biomass into platform chemical and fuel additive

MI Alam, S De, TS Khan, MA Haider, B Saha - Industrial Crops and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reports the synthesis of sulfonic acid functionalized Brønsted acidic ionic liquids
(BAILs) using N, N-dimethyl acetamide [DMA]+, N-methylpyrrolidone [NMP]+ and 1-butyl-3 …

Integrated thermo-catalytic reforming of residual sugarcane bagasse in a laboratory scale reactor

E Ahmad, N Jäger, A Apfelbacher, R Daschner… - Fuel Processing …, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of present study was to demonstrate efficient conversion of residual sugarcane
bagasse by thermo-catalytic reforming (TCR®) into fuels and high-value products in a …

Overview of sustainable fuel and energy technologies

S Quereshi, PR Jadhao, A Pandey, E Ahmad… - Sustainable fuel …, 2021 - Elsevier
The quest for develo** environment-benign technologies to reduce environmental load
has made sustainability a necessary and inevitable criterion. Therefore the past few …