Novel Acid Catalysts from Waste-Tire-Derived Carbon: Application in Waste-to-Biofuel Conversion

Hood, Zachary D.; Adhikari, Shiba P.; Li, Yunchao; Naskar, Amit K.; Figueroa-Cosme, Legna; Xia, Younan; Chi, Miaofang; Wright, Marcus W.; Lachgar, Abdou; Paranthaman, M. Parans

doi:10.1002/slct.201700869

Title: Novel Acid Catalysts from Waste-Tire-Derived Carbon: Application in Waste-to-Biofuel Conversion

Journal Article · Wed Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Chemistry Select

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201700869· OSTI ID:1376323

Hood, Zachary D. ^[1]; Adhikari, Shiba P. ^[2]; Li, Yunchao ^[3]; Naskar, Amit K. ^[3]; Figueroa-Cosme, Legna ^[4]; Xia, Younan ^[4]; Chi, Miaofang ^[5]; Wright, Marcus W. ^[2]; Lachgar, Abdou ^[2];

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Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); The Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Many inexpensive biofuel feedstocks, including those containing free fatty acids (FFAs) in high concentrations, are typically disposed of as waste due to our inability to efficiently convert them into usable biofuels. Here we demonstrate that carbon derived from waste tires could be functionalized with sulfonic acid (-SO₃H) to effectively catalyze the esterification of oleic acid or a mixture of fatty acids to usable biofuels. Waste tires were converted to hard carbon, then functionalized with catalytically active -SO₃H groups on the surface through an environmentally benign process that involved the sequential treatment with L-cysteine, dithiothreitol, and H₂O₂. In conclusion, when benchmarked against the same waste-tire derived carbon material treated with concentrated sulfuric acid at 150 °C, similar catalytic activity was observed. Both catalysts could also effectively convert oleic acid or a mixture of fatty acids and soybean oil to usable biofuels at 65 °C and 1 atm without leaching of the catalytic sites.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1376323

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1373956

Journal Information:: Chemistry Select, Vol. 2, Issue 18; ISSN 2365-6549

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