From waste to advanced fuels
Within the Waste2Fuel project, innovative and cost-effective routes are being developed to convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into valuable fuels and chemicals for next-generation low-carbon energy systems. Particular focus is placed on C1–C2 alcohols and ethers as promising energy carriers and drop-in fuel components.
This study explores the gas-phase oxidative coupling of bio-derived ethanol over multicomponent catalysts derived from hydrotalcite precursors, demonstrating a viable pathway toward efficient and sustainable fuel synthesis
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The present research was financially supported by the Foundation for Polish Science, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Smart Growth Operational Programme PO IR, project no. REINTEGRATION/2016-1/5 Waste into fuel-catalyst and process development for waste biomass valorization, www.waste2fuel.edu.pl. I.S.P. and P.P. extend their sincere appreciation to NAWA The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange through Bekker grants PPN/BEK/2019/1/00348 “C1-C4 alkanes to oxygenated fuel electrochemical transformation” and PPN/BEK/2019/1/00345 “Nanostructured carbon-based materials doped with metal nanoparticles as catalytic electrode materials for CO2 electroreduction with the use of surface-plasmon enhancement”. The research activity of D.M. was supported by funds from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 711859 and by financial resources for science in the years 2017–2021 awarded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the implementation of an international co-financed project.