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- Title
Moving towards a Competitive Fully Enzymatic Biodiesel Process.
- Authors
Javier Pastor, F. I.; Diaz, Pilar; Cesarini, Silvia; Nielsen, Per M.
- Abstract
Enzymatic biodiesel synthesis can solve several problems posed by the alkaline-catalyzed transesterification but it has the drawback of being too expensive to be considered competitive. Costs can be reduced by lipase improvement, use of unrefined oils, evaluation of soluble/immobilized lipase preparations, and by combination of phospholipases with a soluble lipase for biodiesel production in a single step. As shown here, convenient natural tools have been developed that allow synthesis of high quality FAMEs (EN14214) from unrefined oils in a completely enzymatic single-step process, making it fully competitive.
- Subjects
BIODIESEL fuels; TRANSESTERIFICATION; LIPASES
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2015, Vol 7, Issue 6, p7884
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su7067884