Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Research and Publications
Date of this Version
April 1996
Abstract
Increased environmental awareness and depletion of resources are driving to develop alternative fuel from renewable resources that are environmentally more acceptable. Esters of fatty acids (bio-diesel, derived from the transesterification vegetable oils, have properties similar to components of peh-oleior~. based diesel fuel Cost has been a major factor slowing the commercializatio of bio-diesel! Glycerol is the coproduct of the esterification process. In this work the feasibility of the glyc-erol of vegetable oil. with crude glycerol derived from the transesterification of the vegetable oils and animal fats was studied. Utilization of the crude co-product of the biodiesel process was investi-gated for improving the overall economy The transesterification of soybean oil for fuel purpose was optimized. Optimization results are presented. transesterification of beef tallow produces a mixture of esters which is more concentrated in the saturated fatty acids. Physical properties of these es-ters are similar to esters of soybean oil. Reaction results and properties for beef tallow are pre-sented.
Comments
This article was published in © Bioresource Technology Volume 56, Issue 1 , April 1996, Pages 19-24,Available online 17 February 1999. Copyright © 1996 Published by Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/0960-8524(95)00178-6. Publishers version of this article can be viewed at: Bioresource - Elsevire