Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column

Biodiesel has become an attractive focus due to its environmental friendliness and benefits. Waste and non-edible raw materials have been employed for producing biodiesel in order to make it competitiveness with the petroleum-based diesel. Waste raw materials can contain substantial amount of free f...

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Hlavní autor: Chong, Kelvin Chee An
Médium: Undergraduates Project Papers
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2009
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On-line přístup:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/834/1/Simulation%20of%20heterogeneosly%20catalysed%20esterification%20for%20biodiesel%20production%20using%20reactive%20distillation%20column.pdf
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description Biodiesel has become an attractive focus due to its environmental friendliness and benefits. Waste and non-edible raw materials have been employed for producing biodiesel in order to make it competitiveness with the petroleum-based diesel. Waste raw materials can contain substantial amount of free fatty acids (FFAs). Esterification reaction is one of the major routes to produce biodiesel from the raw material with high FFAs. However, the conventional process is facing several problems. Therefore, the development of an efficient continuous process for biodiesel manufacturing is required in which the use of a solid catalyst is highly desirable in order to suppress costly chemical processing steps and waste treatment. In the present study, an innovative esterification process of fatty acids based on reactive distillation was proposed for the biodiesel production. Process simulation was performed to study the feasibility of producing biodiesel using reactive distillation column, to identify the important operating and design factors (reactant ratio, reflux ratio, pressure, distillate-to-feed ratio, number of stages, and catalyst weight), and to propose a suitable configuration of the pilot plant for the biodiesel production. The esterification process was modelled by the esterification of oleic acid with methanol. The reaction was catalysed heterogeneously by sulfonic exchange acid resin. A pragmatic kinetic based on pseudohomogeneous model was incorporated into the reactive distillation model. From the simulation, it was found that it is feasible to produce biodiesel using reactive distillation column. The distillate-to-feed is best suited at 0.4 while the reflux ratio is best-suited in the range of 0.04 to 0.10. Pressure can be up to 3 bar. The changes in catalyst weight apparently contribute to the scale of production for biodiesel. The catalyst weight used is in the range of 250 to 500 gm. Finally, a suitable reactive distillation column configuration was proposed.-Author-
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spelling UMPir8342023-12-11T07:33:41Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/834/ Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column Chong, Kelvin Chee An TP Chemical technology Biodiesel has become an attractive focus due to its environmental friendliness and benefits. Waste and non-edible raw materials have been employed for producing biodiesel in order to make it competitiveness with the petroleum-based diesel. Waste raw materials can contain substantial amount of free fatty acids (FFAs). Esterification reaction is one of the major routes to produce biodiesel from the raw material with high FFAs. However, the conventional process is facing several problems. Therefore, the development of an efficient continuous process for biodiesel manufacturing is required in which the use of a solid catalyst is highly desirable in order to suppress costly chemical processing steps and waste treatment. In the present study, an innovative esterification process of fatty acids based on reactive distillation was proposed for the biodiesel production. Process simulation was performed to study the feasibility of producing biodiesel using reactive distillation column, to identify the important operating and design factors (reactant ratio, reflux ratio, pressure, distillate-to-feed ratio, number of stages, and catalyst weight), and to propose a suitable configuration of the pilot plant for the biodiesel production. The esterification process was modelled by the esterification of oleic acid with methanol. The reaction was catalysed heterogeneously by sulfonic exchange acid resin. A pragmatic kinetic based on pseudohomogeneous model was incorporated into the reactive distillation model. From the simulation, it was found that it is feasible to produce biodiesel using reactive distillation column. The distillate-to-feed is best suited at 0.4 while the reflux ratio is best-suited in the range of 0.04 to 0.10. Pressure can be up to 3 bar. The changes in catalyst weight apparently contribute to the scale of production for biodiesel. The catalyst weight used is in the range of 250 to 500 gm. Finally, a suitable reactive distillation column configuration was proposed.-Author- 2009-04 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/834/1/Simulation%20of%20heterogeneosly%20catalysed%20esterification%20for%20biodiesel%20production%20using%20reactive%20distillation%20column.pdf Chong, Kelvin Chee An (2009) Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column. Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang.
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Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column
title Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column
title_full Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column
title_fullStr Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column
title_full_unstemmed Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column
title_short Simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column
title_sort simulation of heterogeneosly catalysed esterification for biodiesel production using reactive distillation column
topic TP Chemical technology
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/834/1/Simulation%20of%20heterogeneosly%20catalysed%20esterification%20for%20biodiesel%20production%20using%20reactive%20distillation%20column.pdf
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