P-We-29 Strategies for Increased Carbon-Carbon Chain Formation in the Synthesis of Higher Alcohols

Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Ontario Exhibit Hall (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Juan J. Bravo-Suarez, Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Bala Subramaniam, Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Raghunath V. Chaudhari, Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
C3+ alcohols from biosyngas or lower bioalcohols qualify as advanced biofuels.  Formation of C2+ alcohols from syngas on alkali-promoted sulfided catalyst is limited by conversion of methanol-derived intermediates to ethanol. Methanol carbonylation and alcohol condensation reactions on metal loaded mordenites and basic materials show promise for producing higher alcohols.

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