Vapor phase hydrogenation of furfural over nickel mixed metal oxide catalysts derived from layered double hydroxides

Taylor P. Sulmonetti; Simon H. Pang; Micaela Taborga Claure; Sungsik Lee; David A. Cullen; Pradeep K. Agrawal; Christopher W. Jones

doi:10.1016/j.apcata.2016.03.005

Vapor phase hydrogenation of furfural over nickel mixed metal oxide catalysts derived from layered double hydroxides

Taylor P. Sulmonetti, Simon H. Pang, Micaela Taborga Claure, Sungsik Lee, David A. Cullen, Pradeep K. Agrawal, Christopher W. Jones

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Abstract

The hydrogenation of furfural is investigated over various reduced nickel mixed metal oxides derived from layered double hydroxides (LDHs) containing Ni-Mg-Al and Ni-Co-Al. Upon reduction, relatively large Ni(0) domains develop in the Ni-Mg-Al catalysts, whereas in the Ni-Co-Al catalysts smaller metal particles of Ni(0) and Co(0), potentially as alloys, are formed, as evidenced by XAS, XPS, STEM and EELS. All the reduced Ni catalysts display similar selectivities towards major hydrogenation products (furfuryl alcohol and tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol), though the side products varied with the catalyst composition. The 1.1Ni-0.8Co-Al catalyst showed the greatest activity per titrated site when compared to the other catalysts, with promising activity compared to related catalysts in the literature. The use of base metal catalysts for hydrogenation of furanic compounds may be a promising alternative to the well-studied precious metal catalysts for making biomass-derived chemicals if catalyst selectivity can be improved in future work by alloying or tuning metal-oxide support interactions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	187-195
Number of pages	9
Journal	Applied Catalysis A: General
Volume	517
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2016.03.005
State	Published - May 5 2016

Funding

This work was supported as part of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under grant DE-SC0001004 . STEM analysis was performed through a user project supported by ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) , which is a Department of Energy, Office of Science, User Facility . This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

Funders	Funder number
CNMS
Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation
DOE Office of Science
ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science	DE-SC0001004
Argonne National Laboratory

Keywords

Biomass
Cobalt
Furfural
Hydrogenation
Layered double hydroxide
Mixed metal oxide

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