Mesoporous aluminosilicate from nanocellulose template: effect of porosity, morphology and catalytic activity for biofuel production

Stella Jovita, Alvina Tata Melenia, Eko Santoso, Riki Subagyo, Rustam Tamim, Nurul Asikin-Mijan, Holilah Holilah, Hasliza Bahruji, Reva Edra Nugraha, Aishah Abdul Jalil, Hellna Tehubijuluw, Maria Ulfa and Didik Prasetyoko

Renewable Energy, 2025, vol. 250, issue C

Abstract: Mesoporous aluminosilicate (Al-MS) with different morphology and porosity is synthesized using a combination of sol-gel and hydrothermal methods by controlling the ratio between P123 and nanocellulose (NCC). The role of NCC as templates is elucidated based on the transformation of Al-MS from rod-like morphology with hexagonal pores to uniform nanoparticles with intraparticle mesostructure at increasing NCC ratios. Increasing NCC concentration reduced the regularity of the mesopores. TEM analysis revealed a hexagonal pore arrangement for Al-MS and Al-MS (0.25). In contrast, Al-MS (1) with only NCC shows disordered mesostructure. Optimization of P123:NCC ratio enhances the Vmeso/Vmicro to reach the optimum value of ∼18.65, which is essential to enhance hydrocarbon yield. Al-MS (0.25) is the most active catalyst for deoxygenation (DO) of Calophyllum inophyllum oil, reaching 95.98 % conversion, 50.77 % liquid yield and 60.27 % selectivity towards n-(C15+17) hydrocarbon. In general, Al-MS (0.25) demonstrates outstanding performance owing to its good physicochemical characteristics and acidity.

Keywords: Mesoporous aluminosilicate; Nanocellulose; Biofuel; Deoxygenation; Calophyllum inophyllum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148125009553
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:250:y:2025:i:c:s0960148125009553

DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2025.123293

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().