Síntese contínua e não catalítica de ésteres etílicos: esterificação e transesterificação

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Abdala, Ana Carolina de Araujo
• Orientador(a): Silva, Edson Antônio Alves da
• Banca de defesa: Cardozo Filho, Lúcio , Arroyo, Pedro Augusto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Bioenergia
• Departamento: Biocombustíveis
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Óleo residual de fritura; Ácido oleico; Biodiesel supercrítico; Processo contínuo; Bioenergia; Óleos e gorduras alimentícias; Transesterificação; Processo não catalítico; Fontes alternativas de energia
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Residual fried oil; Oleic acid; Super-critical; Bio-fuel; Continuous process
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA QUIMICA::TECNOLOGIA QUIMICA
• Link de acesso: http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/1794

The current work aimed to investigate the production of ethyl esters which result from the esterification reactions of oleic acids (AO) and transesterifiction of residual fried oils (ORF), both in supercritical ethanol throught non-catalic method. The experiments were carried out in a packed bead reactor operated in continuous mode. The esterification reactions were carried out under a temperature from 200 to 325ºC, pressure of 15 and 20 MPa and molar reason AO: ethanol in the range of 1:3 to 1:12. From the results on, was possible to note, that the temperature and the pressure influenced positively the conversion on the esterification reaction of oleic acid, with an income of 93, 5%, observed under 325°C and 20Mpa, in a reaction that last 40 minutes. The excess of alcohol in the reactional system didn´t provide significant differences in the conversions, with the optimum molar reason, defined in 1:6 (AO: ethanol). The transesterification reactions, were carried out with pauses of temperatures from 275 to 325ºC, pressure fixed of 20MPa, adopting the mass reason of ORF to ethanol of 1:0.5 and 1:1, varying the residence time, leading the determination of great conditions to the ethyl esters synthesis. Notable results in the alcoholysis reactions were observed at 325ºC, mass ratio of ORF to ethanol at 1:1 and residence time of 40 minutes. Using the molar ratio ORF: ethanol selected as the best suitable, was also evaluated the effect of the water addition to the reactional medium (0, 5 and10% of water relative to the ethanol mass), in order to investigate the technical viability of the use of low quality and costs of the raw materials containing water in the composition. The effect of addition of deco- hexane solvent (0, 5, 10 and 20% of hexane compared to the substrates mass), as well the effect of addition of soy bio-fuel (0, 20 and 40% of soy bio-fuel compared to substrates mass), were also investigated, in order to improve the performance of the reaction. Notable incomes were observed in the reaction with 5% of water addition and 20% of hexane. The best results related to the soy bio-fuel addition to the reactional medium were observed in the reactions carried out with 40% of soy bio-fuel, however, taking into consideration the amount of esters added to the process, the condition considered great was with 20% soy bio-fuel.. From the best conditions of the process, the kinetic daalcoholise super-critical was investigated with the reactions conducted with the residence time from 0 to 70 minutes and the notable results were: 83% in ethyl esters, obtained in 300ºC, 70 minuts of reaction, using 5% of water, 87% in ethyl esters observed in 300ºC, 70minutes of reaction, using 20% of hexane and 82% in ethyl esters obtained in 325ºC, 50 minutes of reaction, using 20% of soy bio-fuel. Lastly, the stability of the daalcoholise reactional medium was investigated. Temperatures of reaction till to 300ºC resulted in decomposition <10% with residence time of 20 minutes. However, the reactions with longer residence time, showed a higher ratio of decomposition of the constituents of the reactional medium.