Our recent work on the deconstruction of high-density polyethylene into liquid hydrocarbon fuels and lubricants received extensive attention from the media. Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, which needs to be tackled imminently. Here, we reported a liquid-phase catalytic hydrogenolysis process that highly efficiently converted high-density polyethylene (HDPE) to jet/diesel […]
Design of Catalytic Solvolysis Process for Selectively Deconstructing Waste Plastics This lecture will discuss the catalytic solvolysis processes that convert various plastics to value-added products such as monomers or hydrocarbon fuels and lubricants. Furthermore, a sequential catalytic solvolysis process, in which an individual polymer or classes of polymers in a plastic mixture is selectively deconstructed […]
Prof. Eric McFarland from Department of Chemical Engineering in University of California, Santa Barbara visited our group on April 22nd and gave a seminar entitled “Plan B: Taking the Carbon out of Fossil Fuels with Catalytic Reactive Separation”.
Our first patent “US10252251 Production of organic materials using solid catalysts” was issued. The patent provides a method for producing organic compounds, such as esters, from an organic feedstock that includes at least one of a biopolymer or a lipid.
Four undergraduate students in our lab, Gent, Kristian, Scott and Trong presented their work at the eighth annual Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA). Good job!
Our paper entitled “A generic biphasic catalytic approach for producing renewable diesel from fatty acids and vegetable oils” was accepted to ACS Catalysis. Article Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.9b00215
Our paper entitled “Water-assisted selective hydrodeoxygenation of phenol to benzene over Ru composite catalyst in biphasic process” was accepted to Green Chemistry. Article Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/gc/c8gc04017f
Our paper entitled “One-pot Conversion of Carbohydrates into Furan Derivatives in Biphasic Tandem Catalytic Process” was accepted to Catalysis Today. Article Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2018.11.052
Wanli Zhang joined our group as the visiting student from China University of Petroleum. Welcome!
Professor Lin attended the 256th American Chemical Society National Meeting, August 19 – 23, in Boston, MA. He will serve as program chair for the 2019 ACS Division of Energy and Fuels.