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Promoting Effect of Boron on the Stability and Activity of Ni/Mo2C Catalyst for Hydrogenation of Alkali Lignin

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Different amount of boron-modified Ni/Mo2C were synthesized, characterized and tested during the hydrogenation of alkali lignin, to evaluate the effect of boron on the Ni promoted behavior. xB–Ni/Mo2C (x = 0.5, 1, 3, 5) is found to enhance the lignin conversion and bio-oil yield at the same time, and the highest bio-oil yield was obtained with 1B–Ni/Mo2C (63.8%), under the optimum reaction condition (2 MPa H2, 290 °C and 2 h). Characteristic results of BET method, ICP-OES, XRD, Raman, SEM, TEM, XPS, H2-TPR and NH3/CO2/CO-TPD indicate the improved catalytic performance comes from strong interaction between boron and nickel species, which results in improved surace area, highly dispersed Ni particles, increased acidic sites, thus favors cleavage of the C–O and C–C bonds. A possible reaction mechanism was also present based on the catalytic system.

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This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (No. 3207045403, 3207045409, 3207046414), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21576050 and No. 51602052), Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (BK20150604) and a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD).

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    Lingfei Wei, Rehana Bibi, Yu Zheng, Wei Tian, Lingyu Chen, Naixu Li & Jiancheng Zhou

  2. Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Southeast University, Chengxian College, Nan**g, 210088, People’s Republic of China

    Jiancheng Zhou

  3. Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research, Southeast University, Nan**g, 211189, People’s Republic of China

    Jiancheng Zhou

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Wei, L., Bibi, R., Zheng, Y. et al. Promoting Effect of Boron on the Stability and Activity of Ni/Mo2C Catalyst for Hydrogenation of Alkali Lignin. Catal Lett 148, 1856–1869 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-018-2395-3

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