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Catalysts, Volume 8, Issue 5

May 2018 - 50 articles

Cover Story: The cover design represents the core idea of our research, which is the exploitation of woody biomass waste to produce bioproducts (mainly charcoal) that could replace fossil fuel utilization in metallurgical industries, helping them reduce their massive CO2 emissions. For this purpose pyrolysis has been proven as a suitable technology, however, in order to make process profitable and sustainable a proper catalytic optimization of the vapors composition is mandatory. The picture shows the characteristic closed carbon loop associated to biomass, the wastes produced from forest activities are pyrolysed and the vapors thermal-catalytically treated. The charcoal and pyro gas are then used by the metallurgical industry and finally the CO2 is fixed again by the growing plant species. View this paper.
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Articles (50)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,971 Views
8 Pages

Selective Reduction of Ketones and Aldehydes in Continuous-Flow Microreactor—Kinetic Studies

  • Katarzyna Maresz,
  • Agnieszka Ciemięga and
  • Julita Mrowiec-Białoń

22 May 2018

In this work, the kinetics of Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley chemoselective reduction of carbonyl compounds was studied in monolithic continuous-flow microreactors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the MPV reaction kinetics perform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,678 Views
20 Pages

21 May 2018

The use of iron-coated pumice (ICP) in heterogeneous catalytic ozonation significantly enhanced the removal efficiency of natural organic matters (NOMs) in water, due to the synergistic effect of hybrid processes when compared to sole ozonation and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,918 Views
13 Pages

21 May 2018

Nickel catalysts supported on homemade CeO2 oxide were prepared by two procedures intending to achieve different degree of metal-support interaction. One method consisted of a co-precipitation that was assisted by microwave; the other method was base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,930 Views
16 Pages

20 May 2018

In this research, the performance of nanomaterials obtained from the converter sludge (CS) of Esfahan Steel Company, Iran was investigated for the activation of persulfate (PS). The experiments were conducted on real and synthetic leachates. CS showe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,685 Views
11 Pages

18 May 2018

The enantioselective α-amination of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds has been performed using deep eutectic solvents (DES) as a reaction media and chiral 2-amino benzimidazole-derived compounds as a catalytic system. With this procedure, the use of tox...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,059 Views
12 Pages

Catalytic Ozonation of Toluene Using Chilean Natural Zeolite: The Key Role of Brønsted and Lewis Acid Sites

  • Serguei Alejandro-Martín,
  • Héctor Valdés,
  • Marie-Hélène Manero and
  • Claudio A. Zaror

17 May 2018

The influence of surface physical-chemical characteristics of Chilean natural zeolite on the catalytic ozonation of toluene is presented in this article. Surface characteristics of natural zeolite were modified by acid treatment with hydrochloric aci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
13,587 Views
28 Pages

17 May 2018

Nanostructured metal oxides and silicates are increasingly applied in catalysis, either as supports or as active species in heterogeneous catalysts, owing to the physicochemical properties that typically distinguish them from bulk oxides, such as hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,429 Views
12 Pages

17 May 2018

The paper reports the effects of pulse voltage amplitude on streamer discharge propagation at water surface. The subsequent chemical processes in a reactor following the surface discharges with different voltages are presented. A pulsed power modulat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,526 Views
19 Pages

17 May 2018

Electrochemical water splitting has great potential in the storage of intermittent energy from the sun, wind, or other renewable sources for sustainable clean energy applications. However, the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) usually determines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,341 Views
10 Pages

17 May 2018

Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into fuels is a promising route to reduce greenhouse gas emission, and it demands high-performance photocatalysts that can use visible light in the solar spectrum. Due to its broadband light adsorption, polydopamine (P...

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