Author, as appears in the article.: Magdalena Olkiewicz Natalia V. Plechkova Martyn J. Earle Azael Fabregat Frank Stüber Agustí Fortuny Josep Font Christophe Bengoa
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: BENGOA, CHRISTOPHE JOSÉ FONT CAPAFONS, JOSÉ FORTUNY SANROMÀ, AGUSTÍ STÜBER, FRANK ERICH FABREGAT LLANGOSTERA, AZAEL Martyn J. Earle Natalia V. Plechkova OLKIEWICZ, MAGDALENA
Keywords: ionic liquid Lipids extraction Biodiesel
Abstract: Production of biodiesel from sewage sludge lipids was catalysed by six different Brønsted acidic imida-zolium and long chain ammonium ionic liquids; both with an alkane sulfonic acid group and with differentanions. Among the ionic liquid tested, 4-(3-methylimidazolium) butanesulfonic acid trifluoromethane-sulfonate, [mimC4SO3H][SO3CF3], was selected as the best catalyst due to its high catalytic performanceand purer biodiesel obtained than the equivalent ammonium ionic liquid, 4-(trihexylammonium) butane-sulfonic acid trifluoromethanesulfonate, [N666(C4SO3H)][SO3CF3]. The influence of different reactionvariables on the biodiesel yield was studied using [mimC4SO3H][SO3CF3] as a catalyst. The yield of fattyacid methyl esters (biodiesel) reached 90% (based on saponifiable lipids) under the following optimisedconditions: 10:1 molar ratio of methanol to saponifiable lipids, 7 wt% ionic liquid catalyst (wt%, based onlipids), 100◦C and 5 h. In addition, the ionic liquid has a good reusability and can be easily separated fromthe biodiesel. These acidic ionic liquids were found to be efficient catalysts for the synthesis of biodieselfrom low-cost and non-edible feedstock like sewage sludge lipids.
Research group: Enginyeria de la Reacció Química i Intensificació de Processos
Thematic Areas: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0926-3373
Author identifier: 0000-0002-9849-6715 0000-0003-2254-9603 n/a 0000-0002-5525-5401 0000-0001-9424-1400 0000-0002-2350-8654 0000-0002-4007-7905 0000-0001-9160-5010
Record's date: 2015-12-07
Last page: 746
Journal volume: 181
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
First page: 738
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article