Title: Efficient green methanol synthesis from glycerol


Citation
Haider MH, Dummer NF, Knight DW, et al. (2015). Efficient green methanol synthesis from glycerol. Cardiff University. https://doi.org/10.17035/d.2015.100110



Access Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Access Method: Click to email a request for this data to opendata@cardiff.ac.uk


Dataset Details

Publisher: Cardiff University

Date (year) of data becoming publicly available: 2015

Data format: .txt, .run

Software Required: Varian Star for Gas Chromatography files

Estimated total storage size of dataset: Less than 100 megabytes

Number of Files In Dataset: 141

DOI : 10.17035/d.2015.100110

DOI URL: http://doi.org/10.17035/d.2015.100110


Description

The production of bio-diesel from the transesterification of plant-derived triglycerides with methanol has been extensively commercialised. Impure glycerol is obtained as a by-product at roughly one tenth the mass of bio-diesel. Utilisation of this crude glycerol is important in improving the viability of the overall process. Here we show that crude glycerol can be reacted with water over very simple basic or redox oxide catalysts to produce methanol in high yields, together with other useful chemicals, in a one-step low pressure process. Our discovery opens up the possibility of recycling the crude glycerol produced during bio-diesel manufacture. Furthermore, we show that molecules containing at least two hydroxyl groups can be converted into methanol demonstrating aspects of generality of this new chemistry.

The dataset contains gas chromatographs which highlight the large product mixtures formed under certain reaction conditions. Also included are injections of certain chemicals that are formed in the reaction to illustrate their retention time on the GC coloumn.

Research results based upon these data are published at http://doi.org/10.1038/NCHEM.2345


Keywords

Bio-diesel, Glycerol, Metal oxide, Methanol

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