Hydrogenolysis of Empty Fruit Bunch Over Cerium Supported Mesoporous Silica Catalyst

• Main Authors: Fildzah Ariffin, Sugeng Triwahyono, Jahimin Asik
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2022
• Subjects: QH1-(199.5) General Including nature conservation, geographical distribution; QK1-474.5 General Including geographical distribution
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/35131/1/Abstract.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/35131/2/Full%20text.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/35131/; https://tost.unise.org/pdfs/vol9/no3/ToST-9x3x153-158xOA.html
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Hydrogenolysis of EFB into hydrocarbon and phenolic compounds were successfully carried out at different reaction pressure using acid catalyst of 10Ce-MeSiC. From the GC-MS analysis it showed the main composition of hydrogenolysis of lignin was phenol. However, increasing the reaction pressure to 12 bars, increased the selectivity of hydrocarbon with value 23.31% while the phenol conversion was 26.50%. Cyclopentadecane hydrocarbon appears as a main composition in alicyclic hydrocarbon. While, phenol, 2-methoxy- and phenol, 2,6-dimethoxy- was appears as a phenol derivatives compound.