Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 69, Issue 1, Pages 7-19Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bab.2074
Keywords
enzymatic biodiesel; liquid lipase formulation; in‐ specification biodiesel
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Enzymatic biodiesel production offers significant environmental advantages and has the potential to be as effective as conventional chemically catalyzed biodiesel production. However, its widespread industrial adoption has been restricted due to higher capital cost, longer reaction time, and sensitivity of enzyme processes. Additionally, the lack of research on bringing biodiesel product into final specification has undermined industrial confidence. Further research on liquid lipase formulations could lead to improved enzymatic biodiesel production.
Enzymatic biodiesel production has been at the forefront of biofuels research in recent decades because of the significant environmental advantages it offers, while having the potential to be as effective as conventional chemically catalyzed biodiesel production. However, the higher capital cost, longer reaction time, and sensitivity of enzyme processes have restricted their widespread industrial adoption so far. It is also posited that the lack of research to bring the biodiesel product into final specification has scuppered industrial confidence in the viability of the enzymatic process. Furthermore, the vast majority of literature has focused on the development of immobilized enzyme processes, which seem too costly (and risky) to be used industrially. There has been little focus on liquid lipase formulations such as the Eversa Transform 2.0, which is in fact already used commercially for triglyceride transesterification. It is the objective of this review to highlight new research that focuses on bringing enzymatically produced biodiesel into specification via a liquid lipase polishing process, and the process considerations that come with it.
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