Biodiesel production, thermal

Thermal Degradation of Vegetabie Oils on Clays (Biodiesel Production)... 

Dias, A. P. S., Bernardo, J., Felizardo, R, and Correia, M. J. N. Biodiesel production over thermal activated cerium modified Mg-Al hydrotalcites. Energy 41, 344-353 (2012). 

The main unit is the catalytic primaiy process reactor for gross production, based on the ATR of biodiesel. After the primary step, secondary units for both the CO clean-up process and the simultaneous increase of the concentration are employed the content from the reformated gas can be increased through the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction by converting the CO with steam to CO and H. The high thermal shift (HTS) reactor is operating at 575-625 K followed by a low thermal shift (LTS) reactor operating at 475-535 K (Ruettinger et al., 2003). A preferential oxidation (PROX) step is required to completely remove the CO by oxidation to COj on a noble metal catalyst. The PROX reaction is assumed to take place in an isothermal bed reactor at 425 K after the last shift step (Rosso et al., 2004). 

Many publications present research that has been done on biodiesel from production to properties, such as oxidative stability, cold flow properties, and thermal decomposition, etc. [2, 11, 32, 39, 46]. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Modulated Temperature-DSC and Pressure-DSC are among the techniques used to characterize biodiesel. Some of these techniques will be discussed in the following chapter. 

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