Northwestern-led team develops hydrogenation catalyst selective for carcinogen benzene; cleaner gasoline
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2015
The new catalyst could cost-effectively remove benzene from the other aromatic compounds in gasoline, making it cleaner but without eliminating other aromatics; aromatics in gasoline are used to improve gas octane numbers and fuel efficiency. An open access paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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