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ENERGY & FUELS
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 5165-5172Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ef900402r
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- CNPq [140933/2008-5]
- Petrobras S.A.
- Intecnial S.A.
- PROCAD-NF program
- URI/Campus de Erechim
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This work investigates the effect of carbon dioxide as cosolvent on the production of fatty acid ethyl esters from soybean oil transesterification in supercritical ethanol in a continuous catalyst-free process. The experiments were performed in a tubular reactor in the temperature range of 573-623 K, from 7.5 to 20 MPa, with an oil to ethanol molar ratio ranging from 1: 10 to 1:40 and cosolvent to substrates mass ratio from 0: 1 to 0.5: 1. Results showed that the yield of ethyl esters decreased with increasing addition of carbon dioxide to the system. The reaction conversion was noticed to decrease at lower substrates flow-rates due to products decomposition. Considerable reaction yields were achieved at 623 K, 10 MPa, oil to ethanol molar ratio of 1:40 and using a CO2 to substrate mass ratio of 0.05: 1. It is shown that the use of a tubular reactor with smaller inner diameter can provide high reaction conversions in short residence times, thus offering a promising route for the investigation of biodiesel production.
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