Chemoselective catalytic conversion of glycerol as a biorenewable source to valuable commodity chemicals

CHC Zhou, JN Beltramini, YX Fan… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
New opportunities for the conversion of glycerol into value-added chemicals have emerged
in recent years as a result of glycerol's unique structure, properties, bioavailability, and …

Glycerol dehydration to acrolein in the context of new uses of glycerol

B Katryniok, S Paul, V Bellière-Baca, P Rey… - Green …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic dehydration of glycerol to acrolein has the potential to valorise the glut of crude
glycerol issuing from biodiesel production. This reaction requires catalysts with appropriate …

Levels of selected carcinogens and toxicants in vapour from electronic cigarettes

ML Goniewicz, J Knysak, M Gawron… - Tobacco …, 2014 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Significance Electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, are devices designed to
imitate regular cigarettes and deliver nicotine via inhalation without combusting tobacco …

Chemical hazards present in liquids and vapors of electronic cigarettes

C Hutzler, M Paschke, S Kruschinski, F Henkler… - Archives of …, 2014 - Springer
Electronic (e-) cigarettes have emerged in recent years as putative alternative to
conventional tobacco cigarettes. These products do not contain typical carcinogens that are …

Recent progress in quantum chemistry modeling on the pyrolysis mechanisms of lignocellulosic biomass

B Hu, B Zhang, W Xie, X Jiang, J Liu, Q Lu - Energy & Fuels, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pyrolysis of lignocellulose biomass to produce various fuels and chemicals has gained
increasing interest in recent decades. An in-depth understanding of the biomass pyrolysis …

A mechanistic model of fast pyrolysis of glucose-based carbohydrates to predict bio-oil composition

R Vinu, LJ Broadbelt - Energy & Environmental Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Bio-oil obtained from fast pyrolysis of biomass has the potential to be upgraded to
renewable, drop-in fuel intermediates. The quality of bio-oil produced is critical to …

Facile synthesis of highly emissive carbon dots from pyrolysis of glycerol; gram scale production of carbon dots/mSiO 2 for cell imaging and drug release

CW Lai, YH Hsiao, YK Peng, PT Chou - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on a facile method to synthesize carbon dots (CDs) using glycerol solvent as a
single precursor via a pyrolysis process free from catalysts. This method is extremely simple …

Advances in understanding the selective hydrogenolysis of biomass derivatives

YS Yun, CE Berdugo-Díaz, DW Flaherty - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biomass has attracted great attention as an alternative to petrochemicals for the production
of valuable chemicals and fuels. Hydrogenolysis reactions over heterogeneous catalysts …

Recent developments in the field of catalytic dehydration of glycerol to acrolein

B Katryniok, S Paul, F Dumeignil - Acs Catalysis, 2013 - ACS Publications
Catalytic dehydration is one of the possible reactions to valorize the large amounts of
glycerol yielding from the transesterification process. Thus, since the biodiesel boom in 2004 …

Processing biomass-derived oxygenates in the oil refinery: Catalytic cracking (FCC) reaction pathways and role of catalyst

A Corma, GW Huber, L Sauvanaud, P O'connor - Journal of Catalysis, 2007 - Elsevier
The catalytic cracking of glycerol and sorbitol, as representative of biomass-derived
oxygenates, was studied at 500–700° C with six different catalysts, including a fresh fluid …