Fe3O4-SiO2-V3 was prepared by deposited H6PMo9V3O40 on Fe3O4-SiO2 and employed as a catalyst to extract lignin from corncob in deep eutectic solvent (choline chloride/lactic acid = 1/10). Batch experiments were conducted in an autoclave under the con...
Precious metals, in particular Pd, have a wide range of applications in industry. Due to their scarcity, precious metals have to be recycled, preferably with green and energy-saving recycling processes. In this article, palladium extraction from an a...
Electrical and electronics equipment and automotive and industrial catalysts are some examples of top technological devices whose functioning rely on the use of platinum-group metals (PGMs). The PGMs’ high economic value and difficult to replace tech...
Precious metals such as palladium (Pd) have many applications, ranging from automotive catalysts to fine chemistry. Platinum group metals are, thus, in massive demand for industrial applications, even though they are relatively rare and belong to the...
The strategic importance of platinum and palladium, two platinum-group metals (PGMs), is particularly supported by their technological applications, one of the most relevant being the role they perform as catalysts for several sorts of chemical react...
The current study applies the eco-friendly principle of “wastes treat wastes”. By swift methods, a composite photocatalyst was prepared from waste-extracted oxides, namely V2O5, Ag, and ZnO. The metal–lixiviant complexes were used a...
This paper presents a process for efficiently recovering palladium (Pd) from spent Pd/Al2O3 catalysts used for hydrogenation reactions, using ultrasound-assisted leaching (UAL). A system composed of H2SO4 and NaCl was investigated under ultrasound-en...
The recovery and upgrade of hemicelluloses, a family of heteropolysaccharides in wood, is a key step to making lignocellulosic biomass conversion a cost-effective sustainable process in biorefinery. The comparative selective catalytic C-O bond hydrog...
Sinomenine is a naturally occurring alkaloid and commonly used as one of the bioactive drug components in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment in the clinic. Varying supported palladium-based catalysts have been synthesized and examined as heterogeneo...
The work presents studies on the application of hydrometallurgical recovery of cobalt(II) from solutions after leaching spent industrial catalysts used in process of hydrodesulfurization. A four-stage process was proposed, which consists of: leaching...
Chemical–structural characteristics of three differently synthesized research-benchmark Mn-Na-W-Ox/SiO2 catalysts for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM) were systematically studied in this research. XRD, EDX, ICP-OES, and SEM/FIB-SEM techn...
A method of biodiesel production from the freshwater microalgae Chlorella vulgaris based on the conversion of the dewatered algal biomass from a foam column (“foamate”) was investigated. The foam column collected and concentrated the micr...
Understanding the catalytic pyrolysis mechanism of lignite is of great significance for obtaining a high yield of the target products or designing high-efficiency catalysts, which are generally derived by using simple model compounds, while the ordin...
Catalysis represents the cornerstone of chemistry, since catalytic processes are ubiquitous in almost all chemical processes developed for obtaining consumer goods. Nanocatalysis represents nowadays an innovative approach to obtain better properties...
We present here important new findings on the direct synthesis of bimetal Cu-Mn containing porous silica catalyst and the effects of structure-directing agent removal from the prepared nanomaterial on the evolution of surface catalytic sites. The ext...
The problem of spent fluid catalytic cracking (SFCC) catalyst resource utilization, draws more and more attention to system analysis. SFCC was leached in an oxalic solution for comprehensive utilization. The results showed that for a D50 ≤ 17.34 &...
In this work, we introduce an environmental and sustainable approach to grow free standing heterogeneous Cu2O-Cu(OH)2 nanocomposites on a Cu mesh using spinach leaf extract and glycerol. Structural characterizations for samples annealed at 200 °C...
The growing demand for ultra-low sulfur fuels has intensified interest in recovering strategic metals from the large volumes of hazardous hydrodesulfurization catalysts that are discarded yearly. This work evaluates a task-specific ionic liquid, tri-...
Increasing the efficiency of thermal recovery methods is an important and relevant task. This study is devoted to reducing heavy components (resins and asphaltenes) and quality improvement of heavy oil by catalytic hydrothermal treatment. The object...
Considering economics and environmental sustainability, recycling of critical metals from end-of-life devices should be a priority. In this work the hydrometallurgical treatment of a spent automotive catalytic converter (SACC) using HCl with CaCl2 as...
Compared with other methods, the synthesis of metal nanoparticles by metal ion reduction using plant extracts as raw materials has the advantages of low cost, simple synthesis and environmental friendliness, and has garnered significant attention. To...
Spent residuum hydroprocessing (RHDP) catalysts are hazardous waste bearing high-content vanadium and large amounts of oily pollutants. In this paper, a process featuring a Fenton-like reaction and alkaline leaching was proposed to recover vanadium f...
The present study proposes an overall recycling process for spent hydrodesulfurization (HDS) catalysts. The process put together stages already known in the technical literature, tested again with samples coming from the roasting stage in a pilot kil...
One of the current challenges is the reduction of sulfur emitted into the atmosphere, usually in the form of sulfur oxides generated by fossil fuel combustion. To achieve this goal, the sulfur content should be reduced in fuel. In this context, vanad...
Wettability is an important factor affecting the performance of catalytic oxidative desulfurization. In order to develop an efficient catalyst for the extractive coupled catalytic oxidative desulfurization (ECODS) of fuel oil by H2O2 and acetonitrile...
This work reports the synthesis of two monometallic catalysts, Cu/Al2O3, and Pd/Al2O3, using a green approach based on Mexican oregano (Lippia graveolens), a common food condiment. Its extract has been largely overlooked as a high-technology reactive...
This study focusses on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag-nPs) by citrus fruit (Citrus paradisi) peel extract as reductant while using AgNO3 salt as source of silver ions. Successful preparation of biogenic CAg-nPs catalyst was confirmed by tu...
In this work, a novel heterogeneous catalyst consisting of peroxophosphotungstate, microporous MOF-808, and mesoporous SBA-15 was synthesized, characterized, and used to remove sulfides from model fuel. The prepared material, PW4@MOF-808@SBA-15, exhi...
Pt, Pd, and Rh platinum group metals (PGMs) are utilized in automotive catalytic converters to reduce the level of harmful gas emissions. To evaluate the separation efficiencies of PGMs from the leach liquors of automotive catalysts, their extractabi...
A laboratory-scale procedure was developed to obtain lanthanum oxide from spent fluid catalytic cracking catalyst, commonly used in the heavy crude oil cracking process. Two different solids, consisting mainly of silica, alumina, and a certain amount...
The efficient recovery of platinum (Pt) from spent catalysts is of critical strategic importance to alleviate resource scarcity and supply chain dependencies. This study developed an ultrasonic-assisted leaching process using a H2SO4-NaCl system for...
A sustainable hybrid material, CuO/Cu2O, was synthesized using an aqueous extract of Curcuma longa L. as a reducing and stabilizing agent. The material was characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, FTIR, XRD, SEM, EDX, and TEM. XRD analysis revealed peak...
Biodiesel is a promising sector worldwide and is experiencing significant and rapid growth. Several studies have been undertaken to utilize homogeneous base catalysts in the form of KOH to develop biodiesel in order to establish a commercially viable...
Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction catalyzed by the palladium (Pd)-based nanomaterials is one of the most versatile methods for the preparation of biaryls. However, use of organic solvents as reaction medium causes a big threat to environment due to th...
Fungi contain species with a plethora of ways of adapting to life in nature. Consequently, they produce large amounts of diverse biomolecules that can be generated on a large scale and in an affordable manner. This makes fungi an attractive alternati...
This work compared the effect of soaking and roasting Phoenix dactylifera L. seeds pretreatment methods on oil yield. The conversion of the Phoenix dactylifera L. seed oil to fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) was conducted via transesterification reacti...
The removal of sulfur- and nitrogen-containing compounds present in fuels is and will be crucial to accomplish actual strict regulations to avoid environmental and humanity health adversities. The conventional hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogen...
This article reports on silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) that were green-synthesized by using Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) leaf extract and their use for the catalytic degradation of reactive dyes. The properties of biogenic AgNPs were characterized usin...
Extraction of hydrogen from hydrocarbons is a logical intermediate-term solution for the escalating worldwide demand for hydrogen. This work explores the possibility of using a single membrane to accomplish both the catalytic dehydrogenation and phys...
The elimination of nitrogen and sulfur compounds from liquid fuel is a critical aspect of reducing environmental pollution. However, the widely utilized hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation technologies require harsh operating conditions. Mo...
This study presents a green synthesis of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (NPs) capped with Haloxylon (P1) and Calligonum (P2) extracts. The use of plant-derived biomolecules as natural capping agents offers an environmentally friendly strategy to tune...
Improvements in the yield and solubility of chestnut wood extractives, by using different extraction methods and molybdenum catalysts as support, have rarely been reported in literature. Many studies focus on the different parts of trees, except for...
The industrial preparation via solid-state polymerization (SSP) of high-viscosity copolyamides 6/66 (PA6/66) addresses the challenges, including prolonged reaction times, high energy consumption, and uneven viscosity distribution. In this study, sodi...
Amphiphilic hybrid catalysts were prepared by modifying [SMo12O40]2− with tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazole bromide (BMIMBr) and octadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (ODAB), respectively. The prepared catalysts were c...
Biomass valorization to building block chemicals in food and pharmaceutical industries has tremendously gained attention. To produce monophenolic compounds from palm empty fruit bunch (EFB), EFB was subjected to alkaline hydrothermal extraction using...
The first, recyclable protocol for the selective synthesis of (E)-alkenyl boronates via borylative coupling of olefins with vinylboronic acid pinacol ester in monophasic (cat@IL) or biphasic (cat@IL/scCO2) systems is reported in this article. The eff...
Polyoxometalates based ionic liquids (POM-ILs) exhibit a high catalytic activity in oxidative desulfurization. In this paper, four new POM-IL hybrids based on transition metal mono-substituted Keggin-type phosphomolybdates, [Bmim]5[PMo11M(H2O)O39] (B...
We investigated the preparation of CMB (cobalt-manganese-bromide) and CMA (cobalt-manganese-acetate) liquid catalysts as petroleum liquid catalysts by simultaneously recovering Co and Mn from spent Li-ion battery cathode material. To prepare the liqu...
Phenoxyacetic acid is a common reagent which is synthesized by the reaction of phenol and chloroacetic acid. This study underscores the importance of phenoxyacetic acid derivatives as valuable building blocks for the development of functional molecul...
One possible method of producing vanillin from biomass is through controlled oxidation of lignin. Direct oxidation of kenaf stalks was chosen without having to separate the cellulose and hemicellulose components from the lignocellulosic biomass. This...
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