Journal
CATALYSTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/catal11010083
Keywords
solketal; kinetics; homogeneous catalysts; modeling; glycerol
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- European Union (FSE, PON Ricerca e Innovazione 2014-2020, Azione I.1 Dottorati Innovativi con caratterizzazione Industriale)
- European Union
- MIUR [E61G19000090002, AIM1829571-1]
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In recent years, depletion of fossil resources and their negative impact on the environment have led to the search for new alternatives, with biodiesel emerging as a promising option. Biodiesel can be produced through the transesterification of vegetable oils or animal fats, yielding glycerol as a by-product. Glycerol can be utilized in various processes, with its condensation with acetone to produce solketal being one of the most interesting applications.
In the last few years, the depletion of the fossil sources and their negative effect on the environment has led to find new alternatives; among these, biodiesel is considered one of the most promising for this purpose. Biodiesel can be produced from the transesterification of vegetable oils or animal fats, obtaining glycerol as a by-product. Glycerol can be used in different processes and one of the most interesting is the condensation with acetone to produce solketal. Among its applications, plasticizers, solvents, and pharmaceutical formulations are the most common. In this work, the attention was focused on the reaction between glycerol and acetone to give solketal promoted by an iron(III) complex. The reaction mechanism was hypothesized, and the kinetics was studied in a batch reactor. Finally, the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters were determined with a reliable model investigating the phenomena that occurred in the reaction network.
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