Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advanced Materials Science and Environmental Engineering

Free Fatty Acid Reduction for Biodiesel Production in Reactive Distillation Column

Authors
Pawarat Thummasaneh, Kulchanat Prasertsit, Sukritthira Ratanawilai, Sirasit Thipkonglat, Thaicom Ongrattana
Corresponding Author
Pawarat Thummasaneh
Available Online April 2016.
DOI
10.2991/amsee-16.2016.25How to use a DOI?
Keywords
amberlyst-15; crude palm oil; esterification; reactive distillation
Abstract

To treat high free fatty acid feedstock in biodiesel production, the reduction of free fatty acid by esterification in continuous reactive distillation column was investigated. In this work, ethanol and crude palm oil (CPO) which the molar ratio of ethanol to oil was 8:1 were selected as reactants with Amberlyst-15 catalyst and the reaction temperature was 80±5 oC. The effects of type of reactor, feed location and amount of catalyst were examined experimentally. The result showed that either high amount of catalyst in reactive distillation column increased the efficiency of free fatty acid reduction. Finally, at the same amount of catalyst, feed location at upper part of column yield better reduction free fatty acid than lower part of column.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advanced Materials Science and Environmental Engineering
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
April 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-209-1
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/amsee-16.2016.25How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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