Activity and Selectivity of Nanostructured Sulfur-Doped Pd/SBA-15 Catalyst for Vegetable Oil Hardening
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Abstract
Sunflower and canola oils were hardened over a novel sulfur-promoted Pd catalyst. The formulated catalyst comprised of 0.7 wt % palladium nanoparticles promoted with 0.3 wt % sulfur highly dispersed on mesoporous silica SBA-15 (0.7% Pd−0.3% S/SBA-15). The effect of temperature (80−130 °C) and H 2 pressure (3.6−9.3 atm) on the activity, selectivity, and trans (TFA) and saturated (SFA) fatty acids formation were studied for both oils. Under similar temperature and H 2 -pressure conditions, sunflower and canola oils exhibited different reactivities toward hydrogenation. For both oils, the activity of the catalyst increased with the temperature and with the pressure. However, increasing the temperature raised the levels of trans C18:1 especially at low hydrogen pressure. Partial hydrogenation of both oils from initial iodine (IV o ) values of 120−130 to a final value of 90 with the sulfur-doped Pd catalyst yielded modified oils with a low TFA level (6%) and also controlled the formation of SFA (∼7%) under mild temperature conditions (80 °C) and relatively moderate hydrogen pressure (9 atm). The sulfur-doped Pd catalyst proved to be versatile and more active than the Pd catalyst using similar Pd loading and reaction conditions but slightly less selective toward monoene formation. It was found that the intraparticle diffusion limitation for triglycerides does not occur during the hydrogenation of vegetable oils, but the hydrogen transfer limitation cannot be neglected and could partially explain the formation of trans -fatty acids. Modulating the Weisz−Prater modulus used to demonstrate the presence of H 2 intraparticle gradients could be a criterion to control the hydrogenation and cis−trans isomerization activities.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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