%0 Journal Article
%T Coating of Mineral Acids with Niobic Solid Acid for Preparing Furfural from Nut Shell of <i>Camellia oleifera</i> Abel
%A Lisong Hu
%A Menghao Du
%A Jingping Zhang
%J Open Journal of Forestry
%P 486-497
%@ 2163-0437
%D 2016
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojf.2016.65037
%X Nut shell
of<i> Camellia oleifera </i>Abel which has
large scale of plantation in mountainous region of southern China is abundant
renewable resource. The nut shell is suitable for preparation of furfural, as the
content of which is as much as 16% (based the dried nut shell). In early time,
mineral acids were employed as typically catalyst for preparing of furfural
from the nut shells. These mineral acids could pollute water and corrode
equipment. In this paper we used various mineral acids coating with niobic acid
as catalysts to investigate reactions for preparation of furfural. Among these
catalysts, the catalyst of sulfuric acid coating with niobic acid was found to
be very effective, which had higher hammett acidity and better effect of
hydrolysis of the nut shells; The catalysts of sulfuric acid coating with
niobic acid was characterized, and the conditions of preparation of the catalyst
were investigated. The optimum conditions were: sulfuric acid as coating acid,
the concentration of sulfuric 1.1 mol/L, impregnation time 8 h, calcination
time 8 h and calcination temperature 450ˇăC. Then hydrolysis of the nut shells
was explored, the optimum conditions were as follows: dose of catalyst 20%,
ratio of solid to liquid 1:15, reaction temperature 100ˇăC, reaction time 4 h;
Under this condition, the yield of furfural was 8.7%.
%K Furfural
%K Niobic Acid
%K Nut Shell of &lt
%K i&gt
%K Camellia oleifera&lt
%K /i&gt
%K Abel
%K Hydroliysis
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=71556