Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Hydrodeoxygenation of water-insoluble bio-oil to alkanes using a highly dispersed Pd–Mo catalyst

  • Haohong Duan,
  • Juncai Dong,
  • Xianrui Gu,
  • Yung-Kang Peng,
  • Wenxing Chen,
  • Titipong Issariyakul,
  • William K. Myers,
  • Meng-Jung Li,
  • Ni Yi,
  • Alexander F. R. Kilpatrick,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Xusheng Zheng,
  • Shufang Ji,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Junting Feng,
  • Dongliang Chen,
  • Yadong Li,
  • Jean-Charles Buffet,
  • Haichao Liu,
  • Shik Chi Edman Tsang,
  • Dermot O’Hare

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00596-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Bio-oil is a potential major source of renewable fuels and chemicals. Here, the authors report a palladium-molybdenum mixed catalyst for the selective hydrodeoxygenation of water-insoluble bio-oil to mixtures of alkanes with high carbon yield.