Title: H2 production by the photocatalytic reforming of cellulose and raw biomass using Ni, Pd, Pt and Au on titania


Citation
Caravaca A, Jones WV, Bowker M, et al. (2016). H2 production by the photocatalytic reforming of cellulose and raw biomass using Ni, Pd, Pt and Au on titania. Cardiff University. https://doi.org/10.17035/d.2016.0011488532



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Dataset Details

Publisher: Cardiff University

Date (year) of data becoming publicly available: 2016

Data format: .xlsx

Estimated total storage size of dataset: Less than 100 megabytes

Number of Files In Dataset: 9

DOI : 10.17035/d.2016.0011488532

DOI URL: http://doi.org/10.17035/d.2016.0011488532


Description

A method has been developed for sustainable hydrogen production using sunlight and biomass. It is shown that cellulose can be photoreformed to produce hydrogen, even in solid form, by use of metal-loaded titania photocatalysts. The experiments performed verified that the process is enabled by initial
hydrolysis via glucose, which itself is shown to be efficiently converted to produce hydrogen by photocatalysis. Importantly, it is shown that not only precious metals such as Pt, Pd and Au can be used as the metal component, but also much more economic and less environmentally damaging Ni is effective. Even more importantly, we show for the first time, to the best our knowledge, that fescue grass as raw biomass can be effective for hydrogen production without significant pretreatment.

Research findings based upon these data are published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2016.0054


Keywords

Gold catalysts

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