C-Si Supported Palladium for Liquid Phase Decarboxylation of Oleic Acid to Diesel Hydrocarbons

Sari, Elvan

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Ballroom C (Galt House Hotel)

Elvan Sari¹, Manhoe Kim², Steven Salley^1,2 and Simon Ng^1,2, (1)Wayne State University, USA, (2)NextCat Inc, USA.

In this study a new catalyst that can improve the selectivity to green diesel in the absence of additional H₂ was explored for conversion of oleic acid as a model unsaturated FFA molecule. Also the effect of catalyst structure on the decarboxylation activity was investigated.

Extended Abstracts:

Abstract_Pd-CSi Catalyst_NAM 2013-submitted.pdf (89.3KB) - Extended Abstract

P-W-BRC-138 C-Si Supported Palladium for Liquid Phase Decarboxylation of Oleic Acid to Diesel Hydrocarbons