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Inside Back Cover: Catalytic Conversion of Biomass Pyrolysis Vapours over Sodium‐Based Catalyst: A Study on the State of Sodium on the Catalyst (ChemCatChem 12/2015)
Author(s) -
Nguyen Tang Son,
Lefferts Leon,
Sai Sankar Gupta Karthick Babu,
Seshan Kulathuiyer
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201500571
Subject(s) - catalysis , pyrolysis , pyrolytic carbon , biomass (ecology) , sodium , lignocellulosic biomass , cover (algebra) , chemical engineering , vapours , chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , lignin , mechanical engineering , oceanography , neuroscience , engineering , biology , geology
The Inside Back Cover picture shows a schematic drawing of the hydrated sodium species on the surface of γ‐Al 2 O 3 support. Na 2 CO 3 /γ‐Al 2 O 3 was shown to be an extremely efficient catalyst for the pyrolytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into fuel precursors. In their Full Paper, K. Seshan and co‐workers have employed solid‐state NMR and TGA‐MS techniques to identify the active species in the Na 2 CO 3 /γ‐Al 2 O 3 material. Results from such characterization techniques agree very well with theoretical calculations and suggest the formation of a sodium species in the catalyst. The article highlighted by this cover can be found on p. 1833 ff. of Issue 12, 2015.