Selective photoelectrochemical oxidation of glycerol to high value-added dihydroxyacetone

• Main Authors: Liu, Dong, Liu, Jin-Cheng, Cai, Weizheng, Ma, Jun, Yang, Hong Bin, Xiao, Hai, Li, Jun, Xiong, Yujie, Huang, Yanqiang, Liu, Bin
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Organic Chemistry; Photocatalysis; DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102872; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48065
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It is highly profitable to transform glycerol – the main by-product from biodiesel production to high value-added chemicals. In this work, we develop a photoelectrochemical system based on nanoporous BiVO4 for selective oxidation of glycerol to 1,3-dihydroxyacetone – one of the most valuable derivat...