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The Effect of Thermal Pre-Treatment on Structure, Composition, Basicity and Catalytic Activity of Mg/Al Mixed Oxides

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The goal of this work is to study the effect of thermal pre-treatment of Mg/Al mixed oxides (450–1,050 °C) on their structure, basicity and catalytic activity in transesterification of rapeseed oil. The catalytic activity of Mg/Al catalysts was shown to depend not only on the amount of basic sites, but also on crystallite size of MgO, specific surface area and population of medium/strong basic sites. Moreover, high stability of Mg/Al-550 was established by re-using the catalyst four times. It was associated with negligible magnesium leaching from the solid catalyst to liquid phases.

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The authors gratefully thank to the Czech Science Foundation (Project No. P106/11/0773). Ivana Troppová also thanks to ESF and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Project CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0058 “Development of Research Teams at the University of Pardubice”. At VUAnCh, the project is being carried out in the UniCRE centre (CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0071).

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  1. Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Studentská 573, 532 10, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Libor Čapek, Petr Kutálek, Lucie Smoláková, Martin Hájek & Ivana Troppová

  2. Research Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RENTECH-UniCRE, Chempark Litvínov, Záluží, 436 70, Litvínov, Czech Republic

    David Kubička

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Čapek, L., Kutálek, P., Smoláková, L. et al. The Effect of Thermal Pre-Treatment on Structure, Composition, Basicity and Catalytic Activity of Mg/Al Mixed Oxides. Top Catal 56, 586–593 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-013-0008-3

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