TY - GEN
T1 - Study of catalytic reduction of formic acid to methanol under mild hydrothermal conditions
AU - Zeng, Xu
AU - Jin, Fangming
AU - Yao, Hansong
AU - Cheng, Min
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, catalytic reduction of formic acid to methanol with different catalyst under mild hydrothermal conditions was investigated. Formic acid was successfully converted into methanol using Al as reductant and Cu as a catalyst under mild hydrothermal conditions. The selectivity of conversion from formic acid to methanol was found to be as high as 30% at 300 °C for 9 h with formic acid 60 gL-1, filling rate 35% and 4.35 mmol Al and 12 mmol Cu. The addition of Al2O3 was favorable for the synthesis of methanol. Comparing the yield of methanol with the same reaction condition for 3 h without the addition of Al2O3, the yield of methanol can be increased by near 100 per cent under the same condition with Al2O3 3 mmol. This process may provide a promising solution to provide methanol as fuel for transportation and mobile devices.
AB - In this paper, catalytic reduction of formic acid to methanol with different catalyst under mild hydrothermal conditions was investigated. Formic acid was successfully converted into methanol using Al as reductant and Cu as a catalyst under mild hydrothermal conditions. The selectivity of conversion from formic acid to methanol was found to be as high as 30% at 300 °C for 9 h with formic acid 60 gL-1, filling rate 35% and 4.35 mmol Al and 12 mmol Cu. The addition of Al2O3 was favorable for the synthesis of methanol. Comparing the yield of methanol with the same reaction condition for 3 h without the addition of Al2O3, the yield of methanol can be increased by near 100 per cent under the same condition with Al2O3 3 mmol. This process may provide a promising solution to provide methanol as fuel for transportation and mobile devices.
KW - Catalyst
KW - Formic acid
KW - Hydrothermal reduction
KW - Methanol
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.347-353.3677
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.347-353.3677
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80155163338
SN - 9783037852651
T3 - Advanced Materials Research
SP - 3677
EP - 3680
BT - Renewable and Sustainable Energy
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, ICEESD 2011
Y2 - 21 October 2011 through 23 October 2011
ER -