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Industrial Research Activities at Catalytic Reaction Engineering Lab (CRE Lab)

Prof. K.K. Pant Research Group*Email: kkpant@chemical.iitd.ac.in

Industry Day Theme # 4: Sustainable Habitat

Heterogeneous Green Catalysis, Reaction Kinetics, HydrocarbonConversion Processes, Green Technologies for Sustainable Energy andEnvironment, Biomass Conversion, Biofuel, Specialty Chemicals, Fuelfrom Waste Biomass and Waste plastic, Metal Recovery from WEEEwaste, Integrated Biorefinery, Water Treatment, Ionic Liquids, CleanEnergy, Bio-renewable Energy.

Current Projects: Catalytic Conversion of Coal and Natural Gas to LiquidFuels (CTL, GTL, MTO, CO & CO2 Conversion, Tri-reforming, NG to BTX),Hydrogen Production from Biomass, Biomass Conversion to High ValueSpecialty Chemicals and Fuels.

Research Interest

10 kg/h pyrolysis pilot plant 3D view

Pyrolysis conditions: Time 1 h, N2 flow rate 100 ml/min, particle size: 1000 micron

Bulk Metal Separation

• Around 90% metal were separated from metal –char mixture

• More than 90 wt.% metal content of e-waste was separated in the form metal mixture consisting of majorly Cu, Pb, Fe, Al and Ni (87 wt.%)

Element Metal Content

in PCB (5 g )

Bulk Metal

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Cu 1.27 g (25.56%) 0.948 74.17%

Pb 0.09 g (1.8%) 0.09 g ~100%

Fe 0.19 g (3.8%) 0.185 g 97.26%

Al 0.07 g (1.40%) 0.064 g 90.64%

Ni 0.032 g (0.64%) 0.025 g 77.34%

Ag 432 ppm 1341 ppm 93.10%

Au 1.7 ppm 5 ppm 97.05%

Pyrolysis experiment: study of effect of temperature

Scale Up of technology

E-waste RecyclingOverall Methodology :

Overall Research Activities at CRE Lab

Biomass Conversion Beyond Energetic Needs Biomass to Value Added Chemicals

Catalyst’s activity over (a) Ni/MgO, (b) Ni/TiO2, (c) Ni/CeO2-ZrO2, (d) Ni/ZrO2, (e) Ni/SBA-15 and (f) Ni/Al2O3:(A) CH4 conversion and (B) CO2 conversion(Reaction conditions: CH4:CO2:H2O:O2:N2 = 1:0.23:0.46:0.07:0.28, WHSV = 17220 mLh-1g-1, Temp. 800oC at 1 bar

Reduction of Carbon Footprint via Tri-reforming

Major units of lignin High pressure reactor

• Result: 100% conversion of lignin• Major products: 3-methyl

cyclopentanol (4.2%),2-methyl-benzene methanol (18%), benzene propanol(4.7%), ethyl-benzene acetaldehyde (9.5%)

• Reaction conditions: 0.25 g Alkali lignin, 0.25 g Cu-PMO, 80 mLsolvent, 0.14 mL Formic acid,350o C, 4 h)

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CO conversion vs. Temperature

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Methanol selectivity trend in the formation of DMECoal to methanol and DME pathway

Thermodynamics Analysis using Aspen plus

Lignin conversion

Process development for coal to methanol