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2013 (English)In: / [ed] Sauro Pierucci, Jiří J. Klemeš, AIDIC - associazione italiana di ingegneria chimica, 2013, Vol. 32, p. 649-654Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Nordic sulphite and sulphate (Kraft) cellulose originating from Nordic pulp mills were used as raw materials in the catalytic synthesis of green platform chemicals, levulinic and formic acids, respectively. The catalyst of choice used in this study was a macro-porous, cationic ion-exchange resin Amberlyst 70 for which the optimal reaction conditions leading to best yields were determined. For this system, maximum yields of 53 mol-% and 57 mol-% were obtained for formic and levulinic acid, respectively. The reaction network of the various chemical species involved was investigated and a simple mechanistic approach involving first order reaction kinetics was developed. The prototype model was able to describe the behaviour of the system in a satisfactory manner.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
AIDIC - associazione italiana di ingegneria chimica, 2013
Series
Chemical Engineering Transactions, ISSN 1974-9791 ; 32
National Category
Chemical Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-72681 (URN)10.3303/CET1332109 (DOI)000335952100109 ()2-s2.0-84879235164 (Scopus ID)978-88-95608-23-5 (ISBN)
Conference
11th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering (ICheaP),Milan, ITALY, JUN 02-05, 2013
2013-06-102013-06-102023-03-24Bibliographically approved