Vitaly Sushkevich (left) and Manoj Ravi in the zeolite laboratory at PSI, holding a model of a standard zeolite. (Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic)
Vitaly Sushkevich ( left ) and Manoj Ravi in the zeolite laboratory at PSI, holding a model of a standard zeolite. (Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic) - Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and from ETH Zurich want to make so-called zeolites more efficient. Today, these compounds are already indispensable additives in the chemical industry and have been used as catalysts in oil refineries since the 1960s. Now, , the researchers advocate paying more attention to the classic zeolites. These, they assert, would even have the potential to make a bioeconomy based on renewable resources possible. To transform our fossil fuel-based economy into a sustainable bioeconomy, we must replace fossil resources with renewable raw materials. But petroleum, the starting material for numerous products of the chemical industry, cannot simply be exchanged for wood, maize, and straw, since plants consist of completely different kinds of molecules than "black gold".
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