Highly efficient micro-meso acidic H-USY catalyst for one step conversion of wheat straw to ethyl levulinate (biofuel additive).

Jidnyasa, Heda and Prashant, Niphadkar and Sandeep, N. Mudliar and Vijay, Bhokade (2020) Highly efficient micro-meso acidic H-USY catalyst for one step conversion of wheat straw to ethyl levulinate (biofuel additive). Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 306. p. 110474.

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Abstract

Ethyl Levulinate (EL), biofuel additive can blend up to 20% with biodiesel to improve its fuel properties. Till the date, there are reports on homogeneous catalysts (H2SO4, ionic liquid) for synthesis of EL from raw biomass like wheat straw. To best of our knowledge, there is no single report on heterogeneous catalyst for one step synthesis of EL directly from wheat straw. This work is a successful attempt to use heterogeneous micro-meso acidic H-USY (post dealumination and desilication) for direct one step conversion of wheat straw to EL with higher EL yield 24.5 wt%, which is probably the highest so far.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	H-USY Micro-meso Acidity Wheat straw Ethyl levulinate
Subjects:	600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 16 Nutritive value > 07 Waste utilization 600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 21 Cereals > 04 Wheat
Divisions:	Plant Cell Biotechnology
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2021 11:22
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2021 11:22
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/14756

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