Project description
Reshaping the landscape of sustainable chemistry
In a world driven by the urgency of renewable energy and the necessity to replace fossil-based chemicals, a groundbreaking solution has emerged. The conversion of biomass into chemicals through magnetically induced catalysis is poised to revolutionise the landscape. Backed by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the BIOCATMAG project is harnessing the power of magnetic responses in catalysts. Combining heating and catalytic functions under alternating magnetic fields, this innovation paves the way for greener reaction conditions and enables the synergy of intermittent renewable energy sources with biomass conversion. To address challenges like selectivity tuning and nanoparticle stabilisation that lie ahead, BIOCATMAG will advance our understanding of magnetically induced catalysis and offer a range of chemicals using non-noble metal catalysts.
Objective
Within a worldwide upsurge of renewable energies and the need to replace chemicals from fossil sources, BIOCATMAG intends to offer a new catalytic approach for producing chemicals from biomass. Based on magnetically induced catalysis, where a catalyst with a magnetic response combines heating and catalytic functions under an alternate magnetic field, the technology presented would enable the coupling of intermittent renewable energies with biomass valorization. Remarkably, several challenges, but also opportunities, lie on the horizon owing to the use of magnetocatalysis. Some of them would be tuning the selectivity by changing the magnetic field amplitude, stabilizing magnetic metal nanoparticles in water or the need to accomplish cascade-type processes. Therefore, the project aims to broaden current knowledge of magnetically induced catalysis while providing a set of chemicals using unprecedented non-noble metal catalysts and greener reaction conditions, such as aqueous media and low pressures. Furthermore, the reactions have been carefully chosen to cover the main areas of interest in biomass valorization by heterogeneous catalysis. In that sense, the transformation of a next-generation platform molecule (levoglucosenone), the production of organonitrogen chemicals (pyrazines), and the valorization of cellulose will be the processes selected. This selection also considers the need to meet the challenges mentioned earlier. In that line, all reactions will be performed in aqueous media, the levoglucosenone hydrogenation or hydrogenolysis will be adjusted with the field amplitude, and, for the valorization of cellulose, a two-step one-pot process to 2,5-bis-hydroxymethylfurane is proposed. In this last case, a multicatalytic batch reactor working with two different temperature regions is proposed for the first time, taking advantage of the differential heating experimented by different metallic materials under the same alternate magnetic field exposure.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
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31077 Toulouse
France
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