pH Influence on catalytic glycerol electrooxidation on silver electrodes

• Grant number: 14/07075-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): July 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): July 10, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Chemical Engineering - Chemical Technology
• Principal Investigator: Janaina de Souza Garcia
• Grantee: Nina Yumi Suzuki Dantas
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to study and understand the mechanism of the electrocatalytic conversion of glycerol into more valuable commercial compounds. The issue is focused indirectly on the production of biodiesel in the Brazilian energy matrix. The glycerol, as byproduct in the biodiesel production, has led to a significant increase in the supply of this compound in domestic industrial market and hence a drop in the price traded. Thus, we seek in this project, with the aid of electrocatalysis, an alternative way of transforming glycerol into more valuable compounds, such as: glycolic, tartronic acid, glyceraldehyde, oxalic acid, dihydroxyacetone. However, very little is known about the conditions in which they can act with selectivity for the production of one or more products mentioned above. Thus, in this project we propose to work with silver electrocatalysts and identify, by means of High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), the products yielded during the electrooxidation reaction. The set of the results achieved will provide us knowledge to propose suitable routes and understand the minimum conditions for the selective production of compounds from glycerol.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SUZUKI, NINA Y.; SANTIAGO, PATRICIA V. B.; GALHARDO, THALITA S.; CARVALHO, WAGNER A.; SOUZA-GARCIA, JANAINA; ANGELUCCI, CAMILO A.. Insights of glycerol electrooxidation on polycrystalline silver electrode. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, v. 780, p. 391-395, NOV 1 2016. (13/13749-0, 13/21160-6, 14/07075-9, 13/15783-0)