Journal
GREEN PROCESSING AND SYNTHESIS
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 401-410Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/gps-2014-0050
Keywords
computer-aided design; fatty acids; modeling; triacylglycerols; vegetable oils
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Despite the greater attention given to biofuels application in the literature, there are many economic and environmental drivers to use vegetables oils (VOs) as a renewable feedstock for other applications. These drivers are discussed in the present work and the technological challenges imposed by this shift towards new VOs uses are also discussed. They are mainly associated to the reaction routes issues, the performance regarding end-user properties, experimental procedures and property prediction models. The need for more holistic approaches (life cycle analysis) is briefly discussed and the potential benefits arising from new computer-aided tools are highlighted as well.
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