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#### Chapter 6 **Environmental-Friendly Catalytic Oxidation Processes Based on Hierarchical Titanium Silicate Zeolites at SINOPEC 119** Changjiu Xia, Xinxin Peng, Yao Zhang, Baorong Wang, Min Lin, Bin

Zhu, Yibin Luo and Xingtian Shu

## Preface

Chapter 6 **Environmental-Friendly Catalytic Oxidation Processes Based on Hierarchical Titanium Silicate Zeolites at SINOPEC 119**

Zhu, Yibin Luo and Xingtian Shu

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Changjiu Xia, Xinxin Peng, Yao Zhang, Baorong Wang, Min Lin, Bin

Sustainable development and alternative energy constituted urgent needs in the last decade. Re‐ newable chemicals, energy and bio-resources use became challenging topics in the sustainable, renewable and green sciences. This encourages and turns primordial needs the works in certain fields as developing of new and green catalysts for chemical transformations, in the domains of energy, environmental, pharmaceutical, agro-alimentary and cosmetically applications; evalua‐ tion of bio-resources compounds largely available for many applications in energy or as additives to fuels and other applications as well as developing new synthesis routes by avoiding the use of toxic and environmentally damage materials.

This volume contains a series of six contributions as review and original papers treating 'Green‐ house Gas Conversion Efficiency in Microwave', 'Biomass Green Process' and 'Green Synthesis and Catalysis'.

Green and efficient catalyzed conversion of CO2 to valuable compounds is widely developed today. Chapters 1 and 2 of the first section of this book report non-thermal plasma and microwave technolo‐ gies that provide attractive and alternative route in comparison to the other classical technologies for converting greenhouse gases, such as CO2 and others, into valuable fuels and chemicals. Chapter 3, in the second section, reports catalytic conversions of biomass-derived furaldehydes towards biofuels. Chapter 4, in the third section, reports a green synthesis of oligomer calixarenes using efficient micro‐ wave heating that leads to a high selectivity and efficiency in shorter reaction time instead of the traditional thermal heating. In the last section, Chapter 5 describes an environment-friendly ap‐ proach in the synthesis of catalysts based on a metal/polymeric nanocomposite particle for catalytic environmental applications. Finally, the last chapter systematically reviews the synthesis of hierarch‐ ical TS-1 zeolites and their catalytic applications in several oxidation processes at Sinopec to replace the hazardous and polluted traditional routes.

Dear readers, this volume represents a good degree of high-value research. Nevertheless, we look soon to complete the work by editing other volumes. We hope you find this book enjoyable and illuminating in similar line to our previous works *Hydrogenation-2012* and *Recent Advances in Or‐ ganocatalysis*, and any comments you may have are warmly welcome.

We would like to thank all the authors for their precious contributions and their co-operation with us and in adhering to the time-right deadlines. We thank warmly the Lebanese University for giving us all the facilities to complete this volume.

Finally, we wish to express our gratitude to the staff at InTech for their kind assistance in bringing this book to fruition.

> **Iyad Karamé** Faculty of Sciences I, Lebanese University Beirut, Lebanon

> > **Hassan Srour** CPE of Lyon, CNRS-F Lyon, France

**Greenhouse Gas Conversion Efficiency in Microwave**
