Production of Ethylene Glycol and Its Monoether Derivative from Cellulose

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• 作者：Jinxu Xi ; Daqian Ding ; Yi Shao ; Xiaohui Liu ; Guanzhong Lu ; Yanqin Wang
• 刊名：ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：October 6, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：2
• 期：10
• 页码：2355-2362
• 全文大小：302K
• ISSN：2168-0485

文摘

The efficient usage of lignocellulosic biomass is of great significance for large-scale low-cost biomass conversion to biofuels and other useful chemicals. Here, an interesting catalytic process was reported related to converting cellulose into ethylene glycol (EG) and ethylene glycol monoether (EGME) in methanol over a Ru/NbOPO₄ catalyst, with the cleavage of a C鈥揅 bond by NbOPO₄ and further hydrogenation by supported Ru particles. The influence of reaction temperature, hydrogen pressure, and reaction time was systematically investigated and showed that a 54.5% total yield of EG and EGME could be obtained at 220 掳C in 3 M Pa H₂, which was an exciting result. Meanwhile, the effect of solvent was also studied in detail. It was shown that methanol played an important role in the production of EG and EGME, especially in the cleavage of the C鈥揅 bond. Methanol could protect the C鈺怬 bond in glucose produced from cellulose through acetalization, thus prevent its hydrogenation, and led to the production of EG and EGME. Furthermore, the influence of dopants (W, Sn, Ni, Cu) was further investigated, and it was found that only the Ru鈥揘i/NbOPO₄ catalyst was more effective through limiting the further hydrogenolysis of products (EG and EGME) to CO and alkanes, and as high as 64% total yield of EG+EGME was achieved. Moreover, the Ru鈥揘i/NbOPO₄ catalyst showed good reusability, which can be reused at least four times with a little loss in EG and EGME yield.

Keywords:

Cellulose; Ru/NbOPO₄; Methanol; Ethylene glycol; Hydrogenation