RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Si-Al nanospheres for the valorization of galactose and agarose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural.
A1 Torres-Olea, Benjamín
A1 Rodríguez Carballo, Gabriela
A1 García-Sancho, Cristina
A1 Moreno-Tost, Ramón
A1 Cecilia-Buenestado, Juan Antonio
A1 Maireles-Torres, Pedro Jesús
K1 Glúcidos - Aplicaciones industriales
K1 Galactosa - Aplicaciones industriales
K1 Agarosa - Aplicaciones industriales
AB 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is a compound that has gained attention to potentially substitute fossil resources in areas such as the polymer industry or the production of energy vectors. HMF is produced from the acid treatment of hexoses, such as glucose or galactose. In this sense, algae biomass has gained interest as it can be grown in both, sweet and salt water and their growth rate and CO2 fixation are several times higher than those of terrestrial plants. Red algae, which are rich in agarose, a galactose and 1,6-dehydrogalactose heteropolymer, can potentially be used as feedstock to produce HMF [1].Hence, in this work, alumina supported nanospheres have been synthetised and employed as acid catalysts due to their high acidity and porosity that allows the selective conversion of these biomass derived compounds into valuable HMF.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27504
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27504
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 3 mar 2026