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Glycerol hydrogenolysis to propylene glycol

Authors :
Spiridon Oprea
Gheorghe Ionita
Claudia Cobzaru
Adriana Marinoiu
Costinela-Laura Gáspár
Source :
Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters. 97:315-320
Publication Year :
2009
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009.

Abstract

A nickel catalyst showed a considerable selectivity to propylene glycol (up to 98%) at 30% glycerol conversion, under moderate hydrogenation conditions: 200 °C reaction temperature, 20–25 bar hydrogen pressure, 5 wt% catalyst and unprecedented low reaction time of 8 h.

Subjects

Subjects :
Inorganic chemistry
Heterogeneous catalysis
Polyvinyl alcohol
Catalysis
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Hydrogenolysis
Hydrogen pressure
Glycerol
Organic chemistry
Nickel catalyst
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Selectivity

Details

ISSN :
15882837 and 01331736
Volume :
97
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........05fb25cc050b6dcef1cab7f7d0df90bc

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