Hydroprocessing converts excess glycerol into linear paraffinic hydrocarbons, improving oxidation stability and cold flow in diesel blends.
Silver tungstate and nickel catalysts enable glycol production from saccharides at lower temperatures, reducing energy consumption and by-product formation.
Local cooling at the reactor entry point prevents thermal degradation of saccharides, eliminating fouling and reducing maintenance downtime.
Alkali metal phosphate stabilizes noble metal solid acid catalysts during glycerol hydrogenolysis, preventing deactivation and maintaining high selectivity.
Adding 25 to 75 weight percent alcohol to water dissolves carbonaceous materials, preventing catalyst deactivation and maintaining high glycol yields.
Remove sodium salts from by-product streams via chromatography before recycling unreacted polyols, preventing catalyst contamination and improving purity.
Organosolv pretreatment extracts lignin from biomass to enhance cellulose accessibility, reducing acid recovery costs and wastewater treatment requirements.
Crude glycerol stream yields 1,2-propanediol via in-situ hydrogen generation from methanol and water, eliminating external hydrogen supply costs.
Promoted skeletal copper catalysts convert glycerol to propanols, overcoming degradation issues.
Group VIII metal catalyst converts biomass into oxygenated compounds while tolerating sugar degradation products and ash impurities.
A composite catalyst system using silver tungstate and transition metals to convert saccharides into glycols.
Catalytic hydrogenation of 2-aryl-4-hydroxytetrahydropyrans replaces complex multi-step syntheses requiring expensive reagents.
A bi-functional catalyst system converts carbohydrate feed into ethylene glycol and propylene glycol.
Optimized oxygenate mixtures with specific hydrogen-to-carbon ratios drive high aromatic yields through selective condensation pathways.
A hydrazine-reduced soluble hydrogenation catalyst supplements declining activity in glycol production reactors.
Segmenting heavy organic acids in glycol buffers stabilizes pH while preventing tungstate precipitation.