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Controllable oxidation of cyclohexanone to produce sodium adipate in an electrochemical reactor with a Pt NPs/Ti membrane electrode

  • Zhaowei Cui , Hong Wang , Zishang Chen , Yujun Zhang , Hao Tian , Zhen Yin and Jianxin Li EMAIL logo
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International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
From the journal International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering Volume 20 Issue 3

Abstract

An electrocatalytic membrane reactor (ECMR) with an anode consisting of Pt nanoparticles (NPs) loaded on a Ti membrane electrode (Pt NPs/Ti) was designed to oxidize cyclohexanone (K) to produce sodium adipate (SA) under mild conditions. The effects of residence time, reaction temperature, current density and initial K concentration on K conversion were investigated. Optimization experiments were conducted to determine the effects of and interactions between different operating parameters on K conversion using a central composite design within the response surface methodology. A 88.3% conversion of K and 99% selectivity to SA were obtained by the ECMR under the optimum conditions of reaction temperature = 30.8 °C, K concentration = 22.54 mmol L−1, residence time = 25 min and current density = 2.07 mA cm−2. The high performance of the ECMR is attributed to electrocatalytic oxidation (at the Pt NPs/Ti electrode), convection-enhanced mass transfer, and the timely removal of the desired products.

Keywords: cyclohexanone oxidation; electrocatalytic membrane reactor; electrochemical catalysis; Pt nanoparticles/Ti electrode; sodium adipate
Corresponding author: Jianxin Li, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, National Center for International Joint Research on Separation Membranes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China; and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China, E-mail:

Funding source: National Key Research and Development Program of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2020YFA0211000 & 2020YFA0211003

Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: 21576208

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: This work was financial supports from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFA0211003) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21576208).

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-04-26
Accepted: 2021-10-25
Published Online: 2021-11-10

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Keywords for this article
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