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Intensifying levulinic acid hydrogenation using mechanochemically prepared copper on manganese oxide catalysts

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 478, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.147479

Keywords

Ball -milling; Mechanochemistry; Copper nanoparticles; Manganese oxide; Levulinic acid hydrogenation; gamma-Valerolactone

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Copper nanoparticles supported on manganese oxide octahedral molecular sieves were prepared using mechanochemical ball milling and wet-impregnation methods. The ball-milled catalysts showed smaller particle size and higher catalytic activity in the liquid phase hydrogenation reaction compared to the catalysts prepared by wet impregnation.
A series of copper nanoparticles supported on manganese oxide octahedral molecular sieves (OMS-2) were prepared using mechanochemical (Ball-Mill) and conventional wet-impregnation (Wet-Imp) methods. All cata-lysts prepared were thoroughly characterized using ICP-OES elemental analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 sorption, H2 temperature programmed reduction (TPR) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. The catalyst preparation methods greatly affected the size of the Cu nanoparticles. TEM images showed that 5 wt % Cu/OMS-2 (Ball-Mill) catalyst had a narrow particle size distribution with an average Cu nanoparticle size of 2.1 nm, while the corresponding 5 wt% Cu/OMS-2 catalyst prepared using wet-impregnation method had an average Cu nanoparticle size of 19.2 nm. The structural features of the catalysts were corelated with the catalytic activity using the liquid phase hydrogenation of levulinic acid (LA) to gamma-valerolactone (GVL), as an exemplar process. In LA hydrogenation at 190 C-degrees and 20 bar H2 pressure, the ball milled catalysts achieved higher LA conversion, and greater GVL yield, as compared to the corresponding catalysts prepared by wet-impregnation method, reinforcing that Cu nanoparticle size and metal dispersion are important tool to intensify the cata-lytic activity. For instance, 5 wt% Cu/OMS-2 (Ball-Mill) catalyst achieved almost twice the turnover frequency (TOF), 24.7 h(-1) as compared to the 5 wt% Cu/OMS-2 (Wet-Imp) catalyst, TOF 11.8 h(-1), under identical reaction conditions. The results of this study demonstrate that ball milling is a superior method for Cu/OMS-2 catalyst preparation than wet impregnation.

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