Life cycle assessment of intensified processes towards circular economy: Omega-3 production from waste fish oil

R Monsiváis-Alonso, SS Mansouri… - … and Processing-Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fish oil is a nutritious product, mainly due its omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3
PUFA) content that is attractive for its health benefits. Fish oil is discarded as a waste in …

Solid acid catalysts based on sulfonated carbon nanostructures embedded in an amorphous matrix produced from bio-oil: esterification of oleic acid with methanol

FC Ballotin, MJ da Silva, RM Lago… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a solid acid catalyst based on different nanostructures, eg graphene, nanotube,
nano-onions, nanographite, embedded in amorphous carbon matrix was used as a catalyst …

A simple pseudo-homogeneous reversible kinetic model for the esterification of different fatty acids with methanol in the presence of Amberlyst-15

M Banchero, G Gozzelino - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Fatty acid esterification with alcohols is a crucial step in biodiesel synthesis. Biodiesel
consists of long-chain alkyl esters that derive from the transesterification or hydro …

Use of reactive distillation in biodiesel production: a simulation-based comparison of energy requirements and profitability indicators

T Poddar, A Jagannath, A Almansoori - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The advent of biodiesel, as a viable alternative to replace crude-based diesel as transport
fuel, has prompted growing interest worldwide due to the need for low-emission fuels. In this …

Energy efficient design through structural variations of complex heat-integrated azeotropic distillation of acetone-chloroform-water system

C Seo, H Lee, M Lee, JW Lee - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents enhanced energy savings through structural variations of a heat-
integrated distillation column for the separation of ternary azeotropic mixture. The …

Coupling membrane pervaporation with a fixed-bed reactor for enhanced esterification of oleic acid with ethanol

Y Han, E Lv, L Ma, J Lu, K Chen, J Ding - Energy Conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Process intensification through membrane pervaporation (PV) integrated with a fixed-bed
reactor could be successfully applied to the esterification of oleic acid and ethanol, which is …

Nb2O5-catalyzed kinetics of fatty acids esterification for reactive distillation process simulation

M Banchero, G Gozzelino - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2015 - Elsevier
On the basis of kinetic data obtained for the first time in the presence of pelletized niobium
oxide as a catalyst, the esterification with methanol of single fatty acids or their mixtures has …

Synthesis of n-butyl acetate via reactive distillation column using Candida Antarctica lipase as catalyst

H Wang, W Liu, L Gao, Y Lu, E Chen, Y Xu… - Bioprocess and …, 2020 - Springer
The reactive distillation process for the synthesis of n-butyl acetate via transesterification of
ethyl acetate with n-butyl alcohol catalyzed by immobilized lipase was simulated and …

Vapour-liquid equilibrium measurements and extractive distillation process design for separation of azeotropic mixture (dimethyl carbonate+ ethanol)

K Liu, Z Wang, Y Zhang, D Xu, J Gao, Z Ma… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Dimethyl carbonate and ethanol can form an azeotrope with the minimum boiling point. To
separate the azeotrope (dimethyl carbonate+ ethanol) by extractive distillation, p-xylene …

Techno-economic modeling and optimization of catalytic reactive distillation for the esterification reactions in bio-oil upgradation

MA Khan, YG Adewuyi - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Equilibrium reactive distillation (RD) process simulation and economic evaluation were
carried out for the esterification of complex mixtures of several fatty acids and water …