Porous catalysts fabricated from coal fly ash as cost-effective alternatives for industrial applications: A review

SMH Asl, A Ghadi, MS Baei, H Javadian, M Maghsudi… - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Coal fly ash (CFA)-an industrial solid waste-has tremendous potential to be used as a
starting material for development of valuable porous catalysts and adsorbents because of its …

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 …

Valorization of coal fly ash (CFA): a multi-industry review

R Nsiah-Gyambibi, YA Sokama-Neuyam… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Coal fly ash (CFA) management has become a global environmental concern due to their
impact on the environment and the quantities of the waste generated. However, the …

Comparison of pesticide adsorption efficiencies of zeolites and zeolite-carbon composites and their regeneration possibilities

M Andrunik, M Skalny, M Gajewska, M Marzec, T Bajda - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The presence of pesticides in our environment is a consequence of intensive industrial and
civilizational development, necessitating the search for effective and safe methods to …

Heteropoly acid encapsulated into zeolite imidazolate framework (ZIF-67) cage as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for Friedel–Crafts acylation

M Ammar, S Jiang, S Ji - Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
A new strategy has been developed for the encapsulation of the phosphotungstic heteropoly
acid (H 3 PW 12 O 40 denoted as PTA) into zeolite imidazolate framework (ZIF-67) cage and …

Composite coal fly ash solid acid catalyst in synergy with chloride for biphasic preparation of furfural from corn stover hydrolysate

L Gong, ZY Xu, JJ Dong, H Li, RZ Han, GC Xu… - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
A solid acid catalyst SO 4 2−/SnO 2-Al 2 O 3-CFA was synthesized based on industrial
waste coal fly ash (CFA) as carrier and applied in the conversion of oxalic acid pretreated …

A zeolite imidazolate framework ZIF-8 catalyst for friedel-crafts acylation

LTL Nguyen, KALE Ky, TS Nam - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2012 - Elsevier
A zeolite imidazolate framework, ZIF-8, was synthesized and characterized by dynamic laser
light scattering, X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission …

New magnetic nanocomposites of ZrO 2–Al 2 O 3–Fe 3 O 4 as green solid acid catalysts in organic reactions

A Wang, X Liu, Z Su, H **g - Catalysis Science & Technology, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of magnetic solid acid nano-catalysts were designed and prepared through a facile
co-precipitate approach. The original nanocomposites ZrO2–Al2O3–Fe3O4 were …

Modified coal fly ash waste as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for dehydration of xylose to furfural in biphasic medium

A Chatterjee, HU **jun, FLY Lam - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
For the first time, application of acid-treated coal fly ash as a catalyst for selective
dehydration of d-xylose to furfural was investigated in this work. Coal fly ash had been …

Catalytic activity of an economically sustainable fly-ash-metal-organic-framework composite towards biomass valorization

A Chatterjee, X Hu, FLY Lam - Catalysis Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Low thermal stability and insufficient Brønsted acidity are the deficiencies of conventional
metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs), which would greatly limit their applications particularly for …