Khantong Soontarapa. Biodiesel production from palm fatty acid distillate in pervaporation-assisted chitosan membrane reactor. (). King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library. : , 2021.
Biodiesel production from palm fatty acid distillate in pervaporation-assisted chitosan membrane reactor
Abstract:
Biodiesel is an alternative energy source of fossil diesel in diesel engine with
reduced pollution. Palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) with free fatty acids (FFAs) of 87.1±1.3
wt% was used as the raw material in this study. The feedstock with high FFA must undergo
a two steps process for biodiesel production, acid catalyzed esterification step to convert
most of FFA to less than 2% before following by alkali catalyzed transesterification step. To
keep esterification reaction forwardly as much as possible by removing product water,
chitosan membrane reactor that operating under pervaporation principle was studied on its
performance for biodiesel production. The composite sulphuric-crosslinked chitosan
membrane on mesh-reinforced polyester spunbond of which total thickness and membrane
thickness was 387.2±6.4 and 56.2±11.3 μm, respectively, were used in this study. The
working volume of the reactor was 4 L. The membrane with diameter of 3 cm each was
fabricated as a module of which total numbers of 6 modules were installed in the reactor.
The esterification condition should be done at 60°C for 180 min with PFAD to methanol
ratio of 1:15 and 1.5 wt.% H2SO4. The FFA was reduced to 1.7±0.9 wt.% with conversion
of 98%.
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In Thai Institute of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. The 30th Thai Institute of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry Conference (TIChE 2021) (BIE08). Nakhon Ratchasima : Suranaree University of Technology