Hydrocarbon in-situ reforming hydrogen supply technology based on solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is an important distributed and miniaturized hydrogen production solution. Traditional nickel-based reforming catalysts often face sulfur poisoning during the reaction with trace amount of sulfur in the feedstock. In some cases, the existing sulfur may even cause severe safety risks. In this paper, the mechanisms of sulfur poisoning are summarized; the compositions and contents of sulfur species in natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and liquid hydrocarbon are briefly described; the reported sulfur resistant catalysts for different reforming reactions are reviewed, and the effective and feasible solutions for developing sulfur-tolerant catalysts are summarized. The mechanisms of sulfur poisoning could guide the design of sulfur-resistant reforming catalyst with high performance. Finally, the paper reveals that the improvement of catalytic overall performance, the pretreatment of reforming feedstock and the design of reforming reactor and other comprehensive anti-sulfur strategies are also important research directions. 相似文献
Nothofagin is a prominent bioactive ingredient of rooibos tea. We recently reported its synthesis through a glucosyltransferase cascade reaction involving 3′‐C‐β‐D ‐glucosylation of the dihydrochalcone phloretin from uridine 5′‐diphosphate (UDP)‐glucose and in situ formation of UDP‐glucose from sucrose and catalytic amounts of UDP. Here we show that the limitation in process efficiency caused by the vanishingly low water solubility of phloretin – a major problem for biocatalytic modifications of hydrophobic natural products in general – was overcome effectively using phloretin inclusion complexation with β‐cyclodextrin. Unlike operating in a two‐phase system containing uncomplexed insoluble phloretin or using organic cosolvents, the addition of β‐cyclodextrin inclusion complexes was well tolerated regarding enzyme activity and stability. Besides enhancing the effective phloretin concentration in water (∼0.2 mM) to about 50 mM , inclusion complexation offered the additional advantage of overcoming the complex inhibition/inactivation effect of the free/microaggregated dihydrochalcone acceptor. Thus oversaturated phloretin solution was transformed in a single batch reaction in excellent conversion (99% in solution; 88% overall) and isolated yield (78%; 17.0 g L −1). The UDP‐glucose was regenerated up to ∼90 times and the nothofagin space‐time yield of 2.4 mM h−1 presented an eight‐fold improvement compared to a reference reaction using 20% DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) and requiring controlled phloretin feed. We thus demonstrate the high potential of inclusion complexation by cyclodextrins for boosting the glycosylation of hydrophobic flavonoid‐like natural products.
