Publications related to Hydrodesulfurization

Controlling lignin solubility and hydrogenolysis selectivity by acetal-mediated functionalization

Jeremy Luterbacher, Anastasiia Komarova, Graham Reid Dick

Existing lignocellulosic biomass fractionation processes produce lignin with random, interunit C-C bonds that inhibit its depolymerization and constrain its use. Here, we exploit the aldehyde stabilization of lignin to tailor its structure, functionality, ...

2022

Catalyst design for C-O bond hydrogenolysis of renewable materials

Antoine Philippe Van Muyden

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions leading to climate change require to use of renewable carbon sources such as CO2 and biomass which differ from fossil resources by having a higher number of oxygen atoms. Therefore, catalytic C-O bond cleavage will pl ...

EPFL2020

A novel reactor concept for thermal integration of naphtha reforming with propane ammoxidation

Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Samira Ebrahimian

In this study, propane ammoxidation as an exothermic process is thermally coupled with the endothermic naphtha reforming process which resulted in the elimination of the naphtha reforming furnaces. Both processes are available in petrochemical plants. Naph ...

2019

Nickel-Catalyzed Regioselective Hydroalkylation and Hydroarylation of Alkenyl Boronic Esters

Xile Hu, Srikrishna Bera

Metal hydride catalyzed hydrocarbonation reactions of alkenes are an efficient approach to construct new carbon-carbon bonds from readily available alkenes. However, the regioselectivity of hydrocarbonation remains challenging to be controlled. In nickel h ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Metal-Sulfide Catalysts Derived from Lignosulfonate and their Efficient Use in Hydrogenolysis

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xile Hu, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Lichen Bai, Xiang Li, Xinjiang Cui, Sijie Liu

Catalytic lignosulfonate valorization is hampered by the in situ liberation of sulfur that ultimately poisons the catalyst. To overcome this limitation, metal sulfide catalysts were developed that are able to cleave the C-O bonds of lignosulfonate and are ...

2019

New insights into the effect of nitrogen incorporation in Mo: catalytic hydrogenation vs. hydrogenolysis

Lioubov Kiwi, Fernando Cardenas Lizana, Daniel André Samuel Lamey

The catalytic effect of nitrogen incorporation into Mo on hydrogenation (of -NO2 to -NH2 in nitrobenzene to aniline) and hydrogenolysis (of -C?O in benzaldehyde to toluene) processes has been assessed. Bulk Mo was prepared by temperature programmed reducti ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Sulfur Poisoning Recovery on a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode Material through Reversible Segregation of Nickel

Jan Van Herle, Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Hossein Madi, Patrick Simon Steiger, Andre Heel

The perovskite-type mixed oxide La0.3Sr0.55Ti0.95Ni0.05O3-delta (LSTN) is demonstrated to exhibit the remarkable property of structural regeneration, where Ni can be reversibly exsoluted from the host perovskite lattice resulting in a regenerable Ni cataly ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Reversible Segregation of Ni in LaFe0.8Ni0.2O3 +/-delta During Coke Removal

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Patrick Simon Steiger

The deactivation of supported nickel catalysts by coking is an important technological subject for many chemical processes, especially when high concentrations of unsaturated hydrocarbons are present in the feed gas. Here, the reversible segregation of Ni ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2018

Protection Group Effects During α,γ-Diol Lignin Stabilization Promote High-Selectivity Monomer Production

Jeremy Luterbacher, Wu Lan, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Christopher Marc Hunston

Protection groups were introduced during biomass pretreatment to stabilize lignin's α,γ-diol group during its extraction and prevent its condensation. Acetaldehyde and propionaldehyde stabilized the α,γ-diol without any aromatic ring alkylation, which sign ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Copper-catalyzed methylative difunctionalization of alkenes

Qian Wang, Xu Bao, Jieping Zhu, Minh Tu Ha, Takayuki Yokoe

Trifluoromethylative difunctionalization and hydrofunctionalization of unactivated alkenes have been developed into powerful synthetic methodologies. On the other hand, methylative difunctionalization of olefins remains an unexplored research field. We rep ...

Nature Research2018

Mitigation of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Log Wood Burning Emissions by Catalytic Removal of Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri

Log wood burning is a significant source of volatile organic compounds including aromatic hydrocarbons (ArHC). ArHC are harmful, are reactive in the ambient atmosphere, and are important secondary organic aerosol (SOA) precursors. Consequently, SOA represe ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Analysis and Removal of Product Gas Contaminants Present in Gasification Processes

Sven Philip Edinger

Energy demand and economic development are intrinsically linked. Earlier economic development came at the price of serious environmental pollution, posing a risk to life on earth. Thus, a transition from fossil to renewable energy is needed. Among the rene ...

EPFL2017

Advanced Nanopowder Synthesis : Characterization, Performance and Kinetics of CeO2-based Supports, Catalysts and Segregation Processes

Frank Pilger

CeO2-based nanomaterials and their rich redox chemistry provide a possible route to pollutant abatement in various heterogeneous processes, and are in particular used as sorbents for flue gases and as oxygen promoters in three-way catalytic converters. The ...

EPFL2017

Adsorption of thiophene by activated carbon: A global sensitivity analysis

Christian Ludwig

The removal of sulfur compounds in biomass gasification processes is crucial to protect downstream equipment. While conventional sorbent materials can retain H2S, many fail to capture heterocyclic sulfur compounds such as thiophene (C4H4S). This work explo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

A nanoporous oxygen evolution catalyst synthesized by selective electrochemical etching of perovskite hydroxide CoSn(OH)(6) nanocubes

Xile Hu, Kurt Schenk, Fang Song

The development of efficient and Earth-abundant oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts is essential for the generation of renewable hydrogen. The synthesis of nanoporous and high-surface-area catalysts remains challenging. Herein, we show that large nan ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Organic-sulfur poisoning of solid oxide fuel cell operated on bio-syngas

Jan Van Herle, Christian Ludwig, Stefan Diethelm, Hossein Madi

This study experimentally analyzes the performance and degradation issues of an anode supported (AS) Ni-YSZ solid oxide fuel cell exposed to thiophene (C4H4S). The impact of this organic sulfur compound on the performance of SOFC Ni-YSZ anodes is reported ...

Elsevier2016

Investigations into the Effects of Biofuel Contaminants on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Hossein Madi

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) have gathered considerable attention as a clean, highly efficient conversion device for the production of both electricity and heat from fuels. Due to their high operating temperatures, SOFCs do not require pure hydrogen as f ...

EPFL2016

Qualitatively Incorrect Features in the TDDFT Spectrum of Thiophene-Based Compounds

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Basile Curchod, Alberto Fabrizio, Antonio Prlj, Leonard Floryan

Ab initio molecular electronic structure computations of thiophene-based compounds constitute an active field of research prompted by the growing interest in low-cost materials for organic electronic devices. In particular, the modeling of electronically e ...

2015

Manipulating the reaction path of the CO2 hydrogenation reaction in molecular sieves

Davide Ferri, Andreas Züttel, Elsa Callini, Rolf Erni

We demonstrate that the kinetics of the Sabatier reaction catalysed by sorption catalysts depends on the nanostructure of the catalyst-sorbent system. The catalysts are prepared by ion exchange of a nickel nitrate solution in two zeolites with different po ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Olefin Hydrogenation with Single-Site Gold

Butene hydrogenation activity is intimately connected with the occupied and unoccupied electronic states of gold active site. We prepare well-defined Au(III) sites in IRMOF-3 structure, and tuned the metal density-of-states by replacing the substituent gro ...

Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw2014