title: Improving Heterogeneous Catalyst Stability for Liquid-phase Biomass Conversion and Reforming.
abstract: Biomass is a possible renewable alternative to fossil carbon sources. Today, many bio-resources can be converted to direct substitutes or suitable alternatives to fossil-based fuels and chemicals. However, catalyst deactivation under the harsh, often liquid-phase reaction conditions required for biomass treatment is a major obstacle to developing processes that can compete with the petrochemical industry. This review presents recently developed strategies to limit reversible and irreversible catalyst deactivation such as metal sintering and leaching, metal poisoning and support collapse. Methods aiming to increase catalyst lifetime include passivation of low-stability atoms by overcoating, creation of microenvironments hostile to poisons, improvement of metal stability, or reduction of deactivation by process engineering.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Florent
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Héroguel
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Bartosz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rozmysłowicz
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. jeremy.luterbacher@epfl.ch.
authors.forename: Jeremy S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Luterbacher
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D018533:Biomass; D002384:Catalysis; D020134:Catalytic Domain / Q000187:drug effects; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D004798:Enzymes; D008670:Metals