Aqueous phase reforming of starch wastewater over Pt and Pt-based bimetallic catalysts for green hydrogen production
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UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería QuímicaPublisher
ElsevierDate
2023-02-09Citation
10.1016/j.cej.2023.141770
Chemical Engineering Journal 460 (2023): 141770
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1385-8947 (print)DOI
10.1016/j.cej.2023.141770Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.141770Subjects
Starch Wastewater; Aqueous Phase Reforming; Green Hydrogen; Pt-Based Catalyst; QuímicaRights
© 2023 The Author(s)Abstract
This work analyses the application of aqueous phase reforming (APR) for green hydrogen production from starch industry wastewater. This work reports for the first time on the direct conversion of a high molecular weight biomass polymer contained in wastewater in contrast to low molecular weight substrates mainly reported in the literature. The potential of this type of feedstock was evaluated by varying the starch source (rice, potato, sweet potato and cassava) and the type of catalyst (carbon supported Pt, PtRu, PtPd, PtRe and PtRh catalysts). In APR experiments at 220 °C with synthetic wastewater, PtRu/C and Pt/C catalysts achieved the highest H2 yield values, around 51 mmol H2 per g of organic carbon in the initial wastewater, close to 2.6 times higher than that reported in the literature of brewery wastewater, a promising substrate. The lack of free aldehyde or keto groups due to glycosidic bonds between glucose units in starch results in higher conversion to gas and H2 production compared to APR of glucose. This fact shows that APR has more feedstock flexibility than that previously reported for light compounds. In the experiments with real wastewaters, the organic matter removal was influenced largely by the starch source: the best APR performance (28.5 mmol H2 gTOCi−1) was obtained for rice processing wastewater, which is characterized by the highest starch concentration and the lowest protein content. Poor performance was observed in the APR of potato processing wastewater, probably due to catalyst deactivation caused by protein fraction
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Google Scholar:Oliveira, Adriana S.
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Baeza, José A.
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Calvo Hernández, Luisa
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Gilarranz Redondo, Miguel Ángel
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