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REACTION KINETICS MECHANISMS AND CATALYSIS
Volume 107, Issue 1, Pages 189-202Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11144-012-0456-y
Keywords
Glycerol; Biodiesel by-product; Acetalization; Ketals
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- Youth Science and Technology Foundation of Sichuan Province in China [2012JQ0047]
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TiO2-SiO2 catalysts for glycerol acetalization with acetone are synthesized by the sol-gel method and characterized by N-2 adsorption-desorption, X-ray diffraction, NH3-temperature programmed desorption, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy techniques in the present work. The effects of catalyst preparation and acetalization parameters such as reaction time, acetone/glycerol ratio, catalyst amount and reaction temperature on acetalization are investigated simultaneously. Pyridine adsorption results indicate that Ti-Si mixed oxides naturally only consist of Lewis acidic sites. The results of catalyst preparation and characterization show that Bronsted acidic sites can be produced after Ti-Si mixed oxides adsorb water molecules, and TiO2-SiO2 (Si/Ti = 1) calcined at 550 A degrees C exhibits the most total acidic density leading to the highest catalytic property in glycerol acetalization. The glycerol catalytic acetalization mainly occurs on the Bronsted acidic sites. The effects of acetalization parameters indicate that the formation of the main product 5-membered ring ketal 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4-yl methanol (about 90 %) is governed by kinetics. About 95 % glycerol conversion in acetalization is obtained under the optimum conditions.
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