Platinum salt synthesis as precursor to get heterogeneous catalyst for biofuels production

Abstract

The trend in the industry is aimed at developing sustainable processes thus the search for alternative fuels such as biofuels can be the best alternative to replace fossil fuels but they are not yet economically competitive. This research shows a chemical route for the synthesis of tetraammineplatinum (II) chloride salt which needs several stages. Each one production step was evaluated through platinum determination by atomic absorption and their products were characterized by XRD, IR and XRF analyses. Taking into account that the overall yield to tetraammineplatinum (II) chloride was of 61% a pilot plant was proposed and evaluated. This salt is used in the preparation of precursors compounds for getting catalysts supported on structured pore size allowing impregnation of catalytic species and promote the transfer of materials triglyceride molecules, as well as the evaluation of the scaling up of this process to industrial scale.