About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage 2023
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Presentation Title |
D-2: Electrochemical Hydrogenation of Furfural to 2-Methylfuran under Mild pH Environment over Silver/Nanoporous Copper Catalyst |
Author(s) |
Yu-Shuo Lee, Wen-Yueh Yu, I-Chung Cheng |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Yu-Shuo Lee |
Abstract Scope |
Biomass and biofuel, such as 2-methylfuran, has been regarded as a potential chemical to replace fossil fuels or additive for gasoline. Compared to hydrodeoxygenation or catalytic hydrogen transfer, electrochemical hydrogenation (ECH) provide a sustainable method for furfural hydrogenate to 2-methylfuran without high-pressure hydrogen gas or toxic reaction agent during the reaction. In this research, an over 60% faradaic efficiency of 2-methylfuran was achieved by ECH of furfural with extremely low H2 produced (less than 1%) in an acetate buffer (pH is ca. 5) under a potential of -0.6 V (vs. RHE). The enhanced faradaic efficiency of ECH of furfural to 2-methylfuran was promising compared to other published catalysts under the same condition. The key catalyst was synthesized by the impregnation of silver on nanoporous copper with ligament size around 50 nm. The product selectivity of ECH of furfural could be simply controlled by loading silver on nanoporous copper catalyst. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Copper / Nickel / Cobalt, Energy Conversion and Storage, Other |