title: High performance catalytic distillation using CNTs-based holistic catalyst for production of high quality biodiesel.
abstract: For production of biodiesel from bio oils by heterogeneous catalysis, high performance catalysts of transesterification and the further utilization of glycerol have been the two points of research. The process seemed easy, however, has never been well established. Here we report a novel design of catalytic distillation using hierachically integrated CNTs-based holistic catalyst to figure out the two points in one process, which shows high performance both for the conversion of bio oils to biodiesel and, unexpectedly, for the conversion of glycerol to more valuable chemicals at the same time. The method, with integration of nano, meso to macro reactor, has overwhelming advantages over common technologies using liquid acids or bases to catalyze the reactions, which suffer from the high cost of separation and unsolved utilization of glycerol.
authors: 1] Key Lab of Mesoscopic Chemistry, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China [2].
authors: Dongdong
authors: D
authors: Zhang
authors: 1] Key Lab of Mesoscopic Chemistry, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China [2].
authors: Dali
authors: D
authors: Wei
authors: Key Lab of Mesoscopic Chemistry, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
authors: Qi
authors: Q
authors: Li
authors: Key Lab of Mesoscopic Chemistry, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
authors: Xin
authors: X
authors: Ge
authors: Key Lab of Mesoscopic Chemistry, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
authors: Xuefeng
authors: X
authors: Guo
authors: Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Shanghai 201208, China.
authors: Zaiku
authors: Z
authors: Xie
authors: Key Lab of Mesoscopic Chemistry, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
authors: Weiping
authors: W
authors: Ding
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D019149:Bioreactors; D002384:Catalysis; D057168:Distillation; D004951:Esterification; D005990:Glycerol / Q000378:metabolism; D059205:Renewable Energy
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D005990:Glycerol