 Up-gradation of α-tetralone to jet-fuel range hydrocarbons by vapour phase hydrodeoxygenation over PdNi/SBA-16 catalystsGunasekaran Vijayakumar and Arumugam Pandurangan Energy, 2017, vol. 140, issue P1, 1158-1172 Abstract: Mesoporous molecular sieve SBA-16 supported PdNi bimetallic catalysts were synthesized by the co-impregnation method. PdNi/SBA-16 bimetallic Im3m mesoporous catalyst showed superior catalytic performance in the production of jet-fuel range hydrocarbons. Vapour phase hydrodeoxygenation of α-tetralone was carried out under ambient pressure and the highest selectivity (88.21%) for the isomerized product trans-decalin was obtained. PdNi impregnated on different mesoporous (MCM-41, SBA-15, KIT-6) and metal oxides (γ-Al2O3, CeO2, TiO2, ZrO2, SiO2) supports and the catalytic activity was compared with PdNi/SBA-16. Synergetic interaction between the Pd(111) and Ni(111) with increased total acidity enhanced the catalytic activity of PdNi/SBA-16. Among the bimetal, Nickel was found to be the most active metal for the complete reduction of aromatic ring, while Pd favoured the deoxygenation. The major products obtained from hydrodeoxygenation of α-tetralone were cis/trans-decalin, tetralin and α-tetralol. Keywords: α-tetralone; Jet-fuel; Vapour phase; Hydrodeoxygenation; Pd-Ni/SBA-16 catalysts; cis/trans-decalin; Tetralin and α-tetralol (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:140:y:2017:i:p1:p:1158-1172 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.09.038 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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