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A study of the selective hydroconversion of biocarboxylic acids to bioalcohols over novel indium–nickel/zeolite catalysts using octanoic acid as model reactant

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Octanoic acid (OA) was hydrotreated in a flow-through reactor at 21 bar total pressure and 240–340 °C over supported metal catalysts prepared from Ni-zeolites (A, X, P) by indium modification. The Ni-zeolites were activated first in H2 flow at 21 bar and 450 °C. While a fraction of the nickel got fully reduced, the zeolite structure became partially destructed. However, some nickel cations remained unreduced, therefore a large fraction of the crystalline zeolite structure was retained. The indium modification of the reduced Ni-zeolites generated bimetallic NiIn/Ni,H-zeolite catalysts having higher stability, hydroconversion activity, octanol selectivity, and lower hydrodecarbonylation activity than the parent partially destructed Ni-zeolite and the Adkins-type catalysts, commercially applied for the conversion of fatty acids to alcohols.

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The authors wish to express their appreciation to Mrs. Ágnes Farkas Wellisch for her technical assistance. Thanks is due to the Hungary-Slovakia Cross-border Co-operation Programme (Project Registration Number: HUSK/1101/1.2.1/0318) for supporting this research.

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  1. Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pusztaszeri u. 59-67, Budapest, 1025, Hungary

    Szabolcs Harnos, György Onyestyák, Szilvia Klébert & József Valyon

  2. Department of Organic Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 81237, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Magdalena Štolcová & Alexander Kaszonyi

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Harnos, S., Onyestyák, G., Klébert, S. et al. A study of the selective hydroconversion of biocarboxylic acids to bioalcohols over novel indium–nickel/zeolite catalysts using octanoic acid as model reactant. Reac Kinet Mech Cat 110, 53–62 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11144-013-0584-z

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