Glycerol hydrogenolysis to bio-propanol: Catalytic activity and kinetic model for Ni/C modified with Al(H2PO4)3
The aim of the present research is to investigate the effect of different operation variables in the hydrogenolysis of glycerol to 1-propanol and to develop a simple kinetic model useful for the design of the reactor. For this purpose, a carbon-based composite was impregnated with 4 wt.% of Al(H2PO4...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/229999 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/229999 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | glycerol hydrogenolysis kinetic model bio-propanol Ni catalysts https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.4 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2 |
| Sumario: | The aim of the present research is to investigate the effect of different operation variables in the hydrogenolysis of glycerol to 1-propanol and to develop a simple kinetic model useful for the design of the reactor. For this purpose, a carbon-based composite was impregnated with 4 wt.% of Al(H2PO4)3 (CPAl) and used as a support to prepare a Ni catalyst. The support and the catalyst were characterized by BET, XRD, NMR, potentiometric titration, isopropanol decomposition reaction, TEM and TPR analysis. The catalytic tests were carried out at 220-260 °C and 0.5-4 MPa of H2 initial pressure varying the glycerol concentration in aqueous solutions between 30-80 wt.%. The presence of aluminum phosphates in the Ni/CPAl catalyst moderates the surface acidity and the formation of Ni2P leads to a high selectivity towards 1-propanol. In this sense, the Ni/CPAl catalyst showed total glycerol conversion and 74% selectivity towards 1-propanol at 260 °C and 2 MPa of H2 initial pressure using 30 wt.% glycerol aqueous solution and 8 h of reaction time. A slight increase in particle size from 10 to 12 nm was observed after a first reaction cycle, but no changes in acidity and structure were observed. Based on these results, a power-law kinetic model was proposed. For glycerol consumption, partial orders of 0.07, 0.68 and -0.98 were determined with respect to glycerol, H2 and water, and an apparent activation energy of 89 kJ mol-1 was estimated. The results obtained indicate that the model fits the experimental concentration values well and can predict them with an average error of less than 7%. |
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