Nuclear-driven production of renewable fuel additives from waste organics.

ABSTRACT: Non-intermittent, low-carbon energy from nuclear or biofuels is integral to many strategies to achieve Carbon Budget Reduction targets. However, nuclear plants have high, upfront costs and biodiesel manufacture produces waste glycerol with few secondary uses. Combining these technologies, to precipitate valuable feedstocks from waste glycerol using ionizing radiation, could diversify nuclear energy use whilst valorizing biodiesel waste. Here, we demonstrate solketal (2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4-yl) and acetol (1-hydroxypropan-2-one) production is enhanced in selected aqueous glycerol-acetone mixtures with γ radiation with yields of 1.5 ± 0.2 µmol J^-1 and 1.8 ± 0.2 µmol J^-1, respectively. This is consistent with the generation of either the stabilized, protonated glyc

SUBMITTER: Plant AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9814337 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature