Techno-economic feasibility of industrial production of biofuels by glycerol etherification reaction with isobutene or tert-butyl alcohol assisted by vapor-permeation membrane
| Autor: | Giuseppe Bonura, G. Giacoppo, Francesco Frusteri, Catia Cannilla, S. Todaro, L. Frusteri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Isobutylene
tert-Butyl alcohol General Chemical Engineering Batch reactor 02 engineering and technology Permeation 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Catalysis chemistry.chemical_compound Diesel fuel chemistry Biofuel Glycerol Organic chemistry 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 98:413-424 |
| ISSN: | 1226-086X |
| Popis: | A preliminary evaluation of the techno-economic feasibility of an industrial glycerol etherification process for bio-additives production has been carried out. The attention has been focused on the etherification reaction in presence of isobutylene (IB) or tert-butanol (TBA) in a batch reactor, catalyzed by an optimized heterogeneous system. Specifically, the Hyflon-based catalyst resulted more efficient and selective to desired products than commercial resin, limiting the competitive reactions of IB oligomerization and byproduct formation. In case of IB, a mixture of poly-ethers, suitable as oxygenated additives for diesel engines, containing very low amount of mono-tert-butylethers ( 85%) was achieved under optimized reaction conditions. The analysis of the whole process demonstrated the techno-economic sustainability of the proposed routes, leading to a production price of glycerol poly-ethers of 1,14 USD/kg and 2,38 USD/kg, by using IB or TBA respectively. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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