Biodiesel production from waste frying oil in sub- and supercritical methanol on a zeolite Y solid acid catalyst

作     者：Jorge MEDINA-VALTIERRA Jorge RAMIREZ-ORTIZ 

作者机构：Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Aguascalientes Institute of Technology Aguascalientes Ags. 20256 M6xico Academic Unit of Chemical Sciences Autonomous University of Zacatecas Zac. 98160 Mexico 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering》 (化学科学与工程前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第7卷第4期

页      面：401-407页

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学科分类：081702[工学-化学工艺] 081705[工学-工业催化] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 

基　　金：Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia) 

主　　题：biodiesel methanol critical temperature,waste frying oil zeolite Y 

摘      要：Waste frying oil （WFO） is a very important feedstock for obtaining biodiesel at low cost and using WFO in transesterification reactions to produce biodiesel helps eliminate local environmental problems. In this study biodiesel was produced from WFO in sub- and super- critical methanol on a zeolite Y solid acid catalyst. The procedure was optimized using a design of experiments by varying the methanol to WFO molar ratio, the reaction temperature, and the amount of catalyst. Typical biodiesel yields varied from 83 to nearly 100% with methyl esters content ranging from 1.41-1.66mol.L-~ and typical dynamic viscosities of 22.1-8.2 cE Gas chromatography was used to determine the molecular composition of the biodiesel. The reaction products contained over 82 wt-% methyl esters, 4.2 wt-% free acids, 13.5 wt-% monoglycer- ides, and 0.3 wt-% diglycerides. The transesterification of WFO with methanol around its critical temperature combined with a zeolite Y as an acid catalyst is an efficient approach for the production of biodiesel with acceptable yields.