Branched Bio-Lubricant Base Oil Production through Aldol Condensation

Angela M Norton; Sibao Liu; Basudeb Saha; Dionisios G Vlachos

doi:10.1002/cssc.201902793

Branched Bio-Lubricant Base Oil Production through Aldol Condensation

ChemSusChem. 2019 Nov 8;12(21):4723. doi: 10.1002/cssc.201902793. Epub 2019 Oct 23.

Authors

Angela M Norton^{1

2}, Sibao Liu¹, Basudeb Saha¹, Dionisios G Vlachos^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, 221 Academy St., Newark, DE, 19716, USA.
² Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, 221 Academy St., Newark, DE, 19716, USA.

PMID: 31702118
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201902793

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Dionisios G. Vlachos at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware. The cover design shows the application of renewable feedstocks to make a lubricant base oil that can be used in a racecar. The Full Paper itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.201901838.