Heterogeneous catalytic process of a mixture of biofuels
Référence
01855-01
Mots-clés
Statut des brevets
French patent application FR0802491 filed on May 5th, 2008 entitled « Procédé de préparation d’un mélange de biocarburants »
Inventeurs
Nadine ESSAYEM
Rodrigo LOPES DE SOUZA
Berna HAMAD
Gilbert SAPALY
Paulo PRIES DE OLIVEIRA
Wilma GONZALES
Statut commercial
Research agreement, exclusive or non exclusive licenses
Laboratoire
Institut de Recherches sur la catalyse et l’environnement de Lyon (IRCE / UMR5256), Lyon, France.
Description
Technical description
This invention describes a process for converting vegetable oils and ethanol into a mixture of biodiesel and glycerol ethers in one heterogeneous catalytic step. The catalytic system used promotes as well the transesterification reaction with ethanol and the etherification of glycerol with ethanol.
Benefits
This invention combines four main advantages compared to the usual processes based on homogeneous or heterogeneous basic catalysts :
– Glycerol ethers are obtained using a cheap, non toxic and biosourced alcohol.
– Crude or used vegetable oils may be used since the heterogeneous catalyst is not sensitive to free acids.
– The difficult step of glycerol separation is avoided since glycerol ethyl ethers are simultaneously produced with biodiesel.
– Thus, the biofuel yield produced from vegetable oils and ethanol is increased by 10%.
Industrial applications
Applications include: the conversion of crude or used vegetable oils into a biofuels mixture composed of fatty acid ethyl esters and glycerol ethyl ethers, etherification of crude glycerol to produce oxygenate additives to gasoline or biofuels.
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