Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Bioethanol to jet fuel: Current status, challenges, and perspectives

S **e, Z Li, S Luo, W Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioethanol fermentation industry is the first largest fermentation industry in the world. The
conversion of bioethanol into liquid transportation fuels, namely gasoline-range, jet-range …

Electrifying the production of sustainable aviation fuel: the risks, economics, and environmental benefits of emerging pathways including CO 2

RG Grim, D Ravikumar, ECD Tan, Z Huang… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to challenges related to weight and travel distance, the medium to long-haul aviation
sector is expected to remain reliant on liquid hydrocarbon fuels into the foreseeable future …

Highly efficient hydrogenation of α, β-unsaturated aldehydes to unsaturated alcohols over defective MOF-808 with constructed frustrated lewis pairs

L Zhong, X Liao, H Cui, H Luo, Y Lv, P Liu - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Solid frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) catalysts have received much attention. In this work, MOF-
808 with rich defects was constructed using a facile monocarboxylic acid modulator-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Ethanol to gasoline and sustainable aviation fuel precursors: an innovative cascade strategy over Zr-based multifunctional catalysts in the gas phase

A Gagliardi, G Balestra, J De Maron, R Mazzoni… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the biorefinery context, bioethanol upgrading has been identified as a valuable approach
to develop a circular economy for fuels and chemicals production. In this work, the gas …

Sustainable routes to alkenes: applications of homogeneous catalysis to the dehydration of alcohols to alkenes

DJ Ward, DJ Saccomando, G Walker… - Catalysis Science & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
With the growing scientific and social awareness of environmental issues, there is an
increasing demand for renewable alkene feedstocks used to make the products we rely on …

Process design, modeling and life cycle analysis of energy consumption and GHG emission for jet fuel production from bioethanol in China

X Wang, L Guo, J Lv, M Li, S Huang, Y Wang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
China's growing capacity of bioethanol production renders the conversion of ethanol-to-jet
fuel (ETJ) promising. However, ETJ studies are currently scarce in China. This study …

Reaction Pathways of Methanol Reforming over Pt/α-MoC Catalysts Revealed by In Situ High-Pressure MAS NMR

Z Zhao, X Yao, G Hou - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Methanol reforming to hydrogen is a promising route for releasing hydrogen when it is used
as a hydrogen carrier, but the reaction pathways are still in dispute. Herein in situ high …

Enhancing Ethanol Coupling to Produce Higher Alcohols by Tuning H2 Partial Pressure over a Copper-Hydroxyapatite Catalyst

BC Zhou, WC Li, WL Lv, SY **ang, XQ Gao… - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Catalytic upgrading of ethanol, as a platform molecule from biomass to higher alcohols (C4–
12), is a low-carbon route for value-added chemical production. However, the products are …

Isolated Metal Sites in Cu–Zn–Y/Beta for Direct and Selective Butene-Rich C3+ Olefin Formation from Ethanol

J Zhang, EC Wegener, NR Samad, JW Harris… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Direct and selective production of C3+ olefins from bioethanol remains a critical challenge
and important for the production of renewable transportation fuels such as aviation biofuels …