Butyl acetate (BuAc) is widely used as a solvent in many applications, mainly the food and pharmaceutical industries. The conventional process for BuAc production both capital energy intensive. purification involves separation of from azeotropic mixture water n-butanol, which difficult to accomplish using simple distillation unit. In this study, membrane reactor (MR) via esterification n-butano...

The hydrolysis of sodium borohydride as a source of hydrogen gas is studied at different mole ratios of H+ to NaBH4. The sulfonated porous carbon (SPC) is used as a source of hydrogen ion and catalyst. It is found that the sulfonated porous carbon exhibits high activity for the hydrolysis of NaBH4 to generate hydrogen gas at room temperature in comparison to Amberlyst-15 and Nafion-NR50. The ki...

Biomass-derived carbon catalysts have been extensively studied for the dehydration of sugars to platform chemical 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF), which can be used produce valuable chemicals and fuels. However, only limited studies conducted determine their molecular structures how these influence conversion process. Here, we prepare a chlorosulfonated catalyst derived from cotton gin trash (CG...

For the first time, it was proposed to fractionate main components of birch wood into microcrystalline cellulose, xylose and enterosorbents by integrating heterogeneous catalytic processes acid hydrolysis peroxide delignification biomass. The hemicelluloses is carried out at a temperature 150 °C in presence solid catalyst Amberlyst® 15. Then lignocellulosic product undergoes "formic – water" me...