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Carbon-neutral petrol? Catalysing the future of fuels
Autores
Leandro S. M. Miranda
Marcelo Maciel Pereira
Data
Feb 6, 2022
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Colaboradores
Ph.D. Yiu Lau Lam; D.Sc. Sergio Pereira; D.Sc. Joana Pinto;
D.Sc. Juliana Carvalho;
M.Sc. Matheus Oliveira;
M.Sc. Alessandra Vieira; B.Sc. Igor Pedrosa; M.Sc. Debora Nobre;
M.Sc. Cristiane Cardoso.
Researchers at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are taking a cross-disciplinary approach to improve methods for producing biofuels. By converting ‘biocrude’ from sugarcane into hydrocarbons, they can produce the exact same fuels used to power existing transport — and all at net-zero carbon. In their most recent work they describe the merits of conducting this reaction with catalysts mounted on nano-pore materials, which limits the amount of unwanted coke formed.