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- Title
High performance catalytic distillation using CNTs-based holistic catalyst for production of high quality biodiesel.
- Authors
Dongdong Zhang; Dali Wei; Qi Li; Xin Ge; Xuefeng Guo; Zaiku Xie; Weiping Ding
- Abstract
For production of biodiesel from bio oils by heterogeneous catalysis, high performance catalysts of transesterification and the further utilization of glycerol have been the two points of research. The process seemed easy, however, has never been well established. Here we report a novel design of catalytic distillation using hierachically integrated CNTs-based holistic catalyst to figure out the two points in one process, which shows high performance both for the conversion of bio oils to biodiesel and, unexpectedly, for the conversion of glycerol to more valuable chemicals at the same time. The method, with integration of nano, meso to macro reactor, has overwhelming advantages over common technologies using liquid acids or bases to catalyze the reactions, which suffer from the high cost of separation and unsolved utilization of glycerol.
- Subjects
HETEROGENEOUS catalysis; BIODIESEL fuels; SEPARATION (Technology); CHEMICAL inhibitors; SURFACE chemistry; GLYCERIN
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep04021