Investigation of gold-based catalysts for liquid phase oxidation of glucose to glucaric acid

Garcia Soto, Carolina Alejandra (2019) Investigation of gold-based catalysts for liquid phase oxidation of glucose to glucaric acid. [Laurea magistrale], Università di Bologna, Corso di Studio in Chimica industriale [LM-DM270]
Documenti full-text disponibili:
[img] Documento PDF (Thesis)
Disponibile con Licenza: Creative Commons: Attribuzione - Condividi allo stesso modo 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Download (5MB)

Abstract

Glucaric acid (GA) is one of the building block chemicals derived from sugar biomass with higher added value. Nowadays, GA is produced by oxidation of glucose (Glu) with either stoichiometric oxidants (HNO3), or by means of electrochemical or biochemical synthesis. However, these processes show drawbacks from either the environmental or economic viewpoint. For this reason, gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) supported on activated carbon (AC) have been studied as catalysts for the oxidation of Glu, using O2 as oxidant in the presence of a base. Using sol immobilization technique, Au NPs have been supported on AC following different experimental procedures. UV-Vis spectroscopy, XRD, TEM and TG analysis were utilized in the characterization of the catalysts. The operational conditions were optimized obtaining 24% of yield of GA, 37% to GO and 27% to byproducts in 1 h, 1000 rpm, 10 bar of O2 and Glu:Au:NaOH molar ratio of 1000:1:3000. Under such conditions, catalysts show relatively high Glu conversion (≥82%) with different GA yields. GO+GA yield is around 58-61%. Therefore, the oxidation reaction was performed at 15 min where Au/AC PVA0 reached the highest yield of GA (16%) and Au/AC PVA2.4 gave the lowest (8%). It is evident that the presence of PVA influences to a higher degree the reaction rate than the Au NPs size. Hence, the effect of different heat treatments where applied for the removal of PVA: washing with water at 60℃ or heat treatment (120-250℃) with Air/H2. Washing treatment and heat treatment at 120℃ with Air/H2 may have resulted in the mildest treatments for the removal of PVA. Finally, two different supports have been used in order to study the effect of metal-support interaction in the immobilization of Au NPs: ZrO2 and AC. Au/AC catalyst demonstrated a higher conversion of GO to GA at short reaction times (15.1% yield GA) compared to Au/ZrO2 (2.4% yield GA).

Abstract
Tipologia del documento
Tesi di laurea (Laurea magistrale)
Autore della tesi
Garcia Soto, Carolina Alejandra
Relatore della tesi
Correlatore della tesi
Scuola
Corso di studio
Indirizzo
Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry
Ordinamento Cds
DM270
Parole chiave
gold nanoparticles glucaric acid heterogeneous catalysis glucose oxidation
Data di discussione della Tesi
26 Luglio 2019
URI

Altri metadati

Statistica sui download

Gestione del documento: Visualizza il documento

^