Audemar, Maite; Wang, Yantao; Zhao, Deyang; Royer, Sebastien; Jerome, Francois; Len, Christophe; De Oliveira Vigier, Karine published the artcile< Synthesis of furfuryl alcohol from furfural: a comparison between batch and continuous flow reactors>, Related Products of 97-99-4, the main research area is cobalt silica catalyst furfural hydrogenation furfuryl alc; continuous flow batch reactor.
Furfural is a platform mol. obtained from hemicellulose. Among the products that can be produced from furfural, furfuryl alc. is one of the most extensively studied. It is synthesized at an industrial scale in the presence of CuCr catalyst, but this process suffers from an environmental neg. impact. Here, we demonstrate that a non-noble metal catalyst (Co/SiO2) was active (100% conversion of furfural) and selective (100% selectivity to furfuryl alc.) in the hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alc. at 150°C under 20 bar of hydrogen. This catalyst was recyclable up to 3 cycles, and then the activity decreased. Thus, a comparison between batch and continuous flow reactors shows that changing the reactor type helps to increase the stability of the catalyst and the space-time yield. This study shows that using a continuous flow reactor can be a solution to the catalyst suffering from a lack of stability in the batch process.
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