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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials
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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials

by Rafael Luque, Alina Mariana Balu
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 45m
English
CRC Press
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211Conversion of Cellulose and Cellulose-Derived Platform Chemicals
This is further exemplied by the results of Ojeda et al. who reported on the gas
phase oxidation of FF to maleic anhydride (MAH) catalyzed by VO
x
/Al
2
O
3
[107].
Catalysts with varying VO
x
surface densities (at
v
/nm
2
) were prepared by incipient
wetness impregnation of NH
3
VO
3
on γ-alumina (134 m
2
g
−1
) and calcination at 500°C.
The resulting catalysts were screened at 280°C with a furfural/O
2
(1.6 kPa furfural,
2.5 kPa O
2
) gas mixture and optimal conversion and selectivity were obtained for a
catalyst with VO
x
surface density of 10 at
V
/nm
2
. Further optimization of temperature
(320°C) ...
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