Preparation and Characterization of Bimetallic Fe-Co / Al2o3 for Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol

Abstract

Production of value added chemical product from glycerol, used as a co-product in biodiesel, is essential in sustaining bio-diesel industry. The Fe-Co catalyst over alumina is developed and characterized for application in the hydrogenolysis of glycerol using in situ hydrogen, produced during dehydrogenation of glycerol to lactic acid. The catalyst Fe-Co was developed by wet impregnation method and was subsequently loaded on alumina. The loaded catalyst was characterized by FTIR, SEM and XRD to analyze their structure & structural morphology and their potential application for the hydrogenolysis reaction of glycerol is analyzed.