Team at CAS Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics develops levulinic acid to valerate, a drop-in fuel, with zeolite-based catalyst

Dec 12, 2014

The group of Fuwei LI succeeded to substitute the noble element catalysts mostly used for this reaction by a nano-cobalt coated acidic HZSM-5 zeolite. Selectivity was 90 %, and the catalyst could be run stably over days.

CAS news release, Dec. 12, 2014

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