Biodiesel made with sugar catalyst
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- 9 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 438 (7065), 178
- https://doi.org/10.1038/438178a
Abstract
The production of diesel from vegetable oil calls for an efficient solid catalyst to make the process fully ecologically friendly. Here we describe the preparation of such a catalyst from common, inexpensive sugars. This high-performance catalyst, which consists of stable sulphonated amorphous carbon, is recyclable and its activity markedly exceeds that of other solid acid catalysts tested for ‘biodiesel’ production.Keywords
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