固体碱催化制备生物柴油的最新研究进展

异相催化工艺是生物柴油工业化生产的发展方向。固体碱催化剂因其反应速率高、条件温和、且环保可再生等优越的性能成为生物柴油领域的研究热点。本文综述了负载型和非负载型两类催化剂在生物柴油中制备中的应用,总结了其存在的问题,展望了生物柴油未来的发展前景。     

制备生物柴油的固体催化剂研究进展

生物柴油是一种清洁、可再生能源。对催化油脂酯交换反应制备生物柴油的固体催化剂的研究进展进行综述,分析了各种固体催化剂的特性,并对催化油脂酯交换反应的固体催化剂今后研究方向进行讨论。     

固体酸催化制备生物柴油研究进展

生物柴油是一种具有优良燃烧性能的石化替代燃料,开发可用于通过酯交换反应制备生物柴油的固体酸催化剂已成为国内外研究热点。本文综述了固体酸在催化合成生物柴油方面的研究进展,介绍了以纳米材料、磁性材料作为载体以及掺杂稀土元素等固体酸改性方法,并对固体酸催化制备生物柴油的发展前景进行了展望。     

固体酸催化制备生物柴油研究进展

生物柴油是一种绿色的可再生能源,主要通过酯交换反应生产。催化剂在酯交换反应中起重要作用,固体酸催化剂因污染少、效率高、易分离而成为研究热点。本文介绍了固体酸催化制备生物柴油的反应机理,综述了国内外近几年生物柴油制备中所用固体酸催化剂的研究进展,分为固体杂多酸、无机酸盐、金属氧化物及其复合物、沸石分子筛及阳离子交换树脂等,分析了催化剂的制备流程、反应操作条件和反应结果等,得出固体酸在催化含有大量水分和游离酸的油脂酯交换反应方面具有独特的优势,且符合生物柴油绿色生产的要求,是需要进一步研究和开发的方向。     

制备生物柴油固体催化剂及过程强化研究进展

叙述了催化酯交换反应制备生物柴油固体催化剂的类型及特点、催化活性和寿命,介绍了近期有关固体非均相催化酯交换过程强化研究及其对反应和转化率的影响。认为需寻求活性更高的催化剂,强化过程传质等工程手段,以解决固体催化过程存在的非均相和催化界面使酯交换反应时间过长、转化率低的问题。     

制备生物柴油的固体碱催化剂研究进展

生物柴油是一种环境友好型可再生资源.采用传统的均相催化剂生产工艺制备生物柴油由于后处理复杂,易产生酸碱性废水,污染环境等原因,已与绿色化工理念相悖.本文综述了用于催化油脂酯交换反应制备生物柴油的固体碱催化剂的研究进展,分析了各种固体碱催化剂的特性,并对用于制备生物柴油的固体碱催化剂研究方向进行展望.     

酯交换法制备生物柴油的催化剂研究进展

在酯交换反应制备生物柴油的工艺过程中,可以选用的催化剂有酸/碱均相催化剂、生物酶催化剂和固体催化剂3大类.本文对这几类催化剂在该工艺过程中的应用情况进行介绍,并就各自的成本、活性、稳定性和可回收性等相关因素进行了对比分析,指出利用固体催化剂是该领域的发展方向,对固体催化剂的研究前景做出了展望.     

固体碱催化酯交换反应制备生物柴油研究进展

介绍了非负载型和负载型2类固体碱催化剂用于制备生物柴油的研究进展,采用酯交换法因其无需消耗大量能量、操作方法简单,成为制备生物柴油的主要方法,并随着负载型固体碱催化剂载体的纳米化、介孔化,纳米级以及以分子筛作为载体的固体碱催化剂将成为一个主要的研究方向。认为开发更加稳定、耐水、耐酸的固体碱催化将是今后固体碱催化剂的研究重点。     

制备生物柴油的固体酸催化剂研究进展

生物柴油是一种绿色可再生能源。目前,大多采用高活性的固体酸催化酯化、酯交换反应进行制备,该工艺具有产品与催化剂易分离、催化剂可回收再生且环保等优点。本文综述了固体超强酸、负载型固体酸、金属氧化物及复合物、沸石分子筛、阳离子交换树脂、离子液体及杂多酸等不同类型固体酸催化剂催化制备生物柴油的最新研究进展,包括催化剂的制备、活性、催化行为。最后,对制备生物柴油的固体酸在物理化学性质、成本等方面的研究进行展望。     

催化酯交换制备生物柴油的研究进展

催化酯交换是制备生物柴油的一个重要方法。本文综述了均相催化和非均相催化、酸性催化和碱性催化、固体酸和固体碱催化的研究进展,并针对每类催化剂的特性和应用范围进行比较,得出固体酸和固体碱催化符合绿色生产生物柴油的要求,是未来发展的方向。特别是固体酸在催化含有水分和游离酸的油脂酯交换方面具有独特的优势,需要进一步研究和开发。     

菜籽油制备生物柴油的研究现状和发展趋势

综述了国内外以菜籽油制备生物柴油的研究现状和发展趋势,通过对各种制备方法的系统比较和国内外发展现状的考察,提出了用常压、连续反应-分离一体化的生产技术,以纳米固体酸、碱催化法制备生物柴油的研发方向,指出了以菜籽油为原料制备生物柴油的发展优势。     

Advances on the development of novel heterogeneous catalysts for transesterification of triglycerides in biodiesel

This paper describes experimental work done towards the search for more profitable and sustainable alternatives regarding biodiesel production, using heterogeneous catalysts instead of the conventional homogenous alkaline catalysts, such as NaOH, KOH or sodium methoxide, for the methanolysis reaction. This experimental work is a first stage on the development and optimization of new solid catalysts, able to produce biodiesel from vegetable oils. The heterogeneous catalytic process has many differences from the currently used in industry homogeneous process. The main advantage is that, it requires lower investment costs, since no need for separation steps of methanol/catalyst, biodiesel/catalyst and glycerine/catalyst. This work resulted in the selection of CaO and CaO modified with Li catalysts, which showed very good catalytic performances with high activity and stability. In fact FAME yields higher than 92% were observed in two consecutive reaction batches without expensive intermediate reactivation procedures. Therefore, those catalysts appear to be suitable for biodiesel production.     

Heterogeneous Catalyst of Mixed K Compounds/Ca‐Al‐Graphite Oxide for the Transesterification of Soybean Oil to Biodiesel

A novel heterogeneous solid base catalyst was prepared by loading of Ca‐Al‐graphite oxide with mixed potassium salts and applied in the transesterification of soybean oil with methanol to produce biodiesel. The catalysts were characterized by Hammett indicators, X‐ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X‐ray spectrometry, and transmission electron microscopy. The effects of the methanol‐to‐oil molar ratio, catalyst amount, reaction temperature, stirring rate, and reaction time were investigated to optimize the transesterification reaction conditions. Moreover, the prepared catalyst retains its activity after being used for four cycles. In particular, the solid base catalyst can be effectively and easily separated from the reaction system, which may provide significant benefits for the development of an environmentally benign and continuous process for preparing biodiesel.     

Statistical optimization for lithium silicate catalyzed production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil

Lithium silicate is one of the suitable heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel production. The possibilities of large number of combinations of different reaction parameters make the optimization of biodiesel production process over various heterogeneous catalysts highly tedious, necessitating the development of alternate strategies for parameter optimization. Here, Box-Behnken design (BBD) coupled with response surface methodology (RSM) is employed to optimize the process parameters required for the production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil using lithium silicate as catalyst. Simple method of impregnation was performed for the material preparation and the catalyst was analyzed using different techniques. It was found that the activity is directly proportional to the basicity data obtained from temperature programmed desorption (TPD) of CO₂ over various catalyst systems. The material exhibits macroporous morphology and the major crystalline phase of the most active catalyst was found to be Li₂SiO₃. The effects of different reaction parameters were studied and a biodiesel yield of 100% was obtained under the predicted optimum reaction conditions of methanol : oil molar ratio 15 : 1, catalyst amount 7 wt%, reaction temperature 55 °C and reaction time 2.5 h. The validation experiments showed a correlation coefficient of 0.95 between the predicted and experimental yield of biodiesel, which indicates the high significance of the model. The fuel properties of biodiesel obtained under the optimum conditions met the specifications as mentioned in ASTM D6751 and EN 14214 standards. Catalyst heterogeneity and low reaction temperature are the major attractions of the present biodiesel preparation strategy.     

The effects of catalysts in biodiesel production: A review

Biodiesel fuel has shown great promise as an alternative to petro-diesel fuel. Biodiesel production is widely conducted through transesterification reaction, catalyzed by homogeneous catalysts or heterogeneous catalysts. The most notable catalyst used in producing biodiesel is the homogeneous alkaline catalyst such as NaOH, KOH, CH₃ONa and CH₃OK. The choice of these catalysts is due to their higher kinetic reaction rates. However because of high cost of refined feedstocks and difficulties associated with use of homogeneous alkaline catalysts to transesterify low quality feedstocks for biodiesel production, development of various heterogeneous catalysts are now on the increase. Development of heterogeneous catalyst such as solid and enzymes catalysts could overcome most of the problems associated with homogeneous catalysts. Therefore this study critically analyzes the effects of different catalysts used for producing biodiesel using findings available in the open literature. Also, this critical review could allow identification of research areas to explore and improve the catalysts performance commonly employed in producing biodiesel fuel.     

Sulfonated Beet Pulp as Solid Catalyst in One-Step Esterification of Industrial Palm Fatty Acid Distillate

In this research a new heterogeneous catalyst has been prepared for biodiesel production. The catalyst was prepared by sulfonating industrial sugar waste. Unlike homogeneous catalysts, which require further purification and separation from the biodiesel production reaction media, this inexpensive synthetic catalyst does not need to go through an additional separation process. This advantage consequently minimizes the total application costs. The catalyst was prepared by partially carbonizing sugar beet pulp at 400 °C. The carbonization product was then sulfonated with concentrated H₂SO₄ vapor in order to produce a solid catalyst. The prepared catalyst was used in the esterification reaction between palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) and methanol. The effects of the temperature, methanol/PFAD ratio, reaction time and catalyst dosage on the efficiency of the production were individually investigated. The optimum biodiesel production occurred at 85 °C, a reaction time of 300 min, catalyst dosage of 3 g and methanol/PFAD ratio of 5:1 (mol/mol), lowering the acid value from 198 to 13.1 (mg KOH/g oil) or the equivalent, with a fatty acid methyl ester yield of around 92 %. The results suggest that the synthesized inexpensive catalyst is useful for biodiesel production from PFAD.     

Supported solid and heteropoly acid catalysts for production of biodiesel

Biodiesel has developed attraction of most researchers recently because of its renewable resources and environmental benefits. Transesterification process in the presence of catalysts is the most common way, which is used for biodiesel production. Heterogeneous acid catalysts are considered more reliable than any other catalysts to carry out most vital reactions related to green chemistry (biodiesel production), because the production of biodiesel from solid acid catalysts is considered economically favorable. Nowadays, biodiesel is preparing from low quality feedstock by using solid acids catalysts in many research laboratory throughout the world. This article discusses how much catalyst shapes affect the efficiency of catalyst during catalysis. Different types of supports (zinc oxide, alumina, zirconia, and silica) are used to increase the efficiency of catalysts. Supported Lewis acid, Brønsted acid, and heteropoly acid catalysts show good efficiency for the catalytic transesterification of oil with alcohol. Heteropoly acid catalysts are tremendous and environment friendly acid catalyst and have ability to tolerate contaminations of oil resources such as water contents and free fatty acids (FFAs) contents. Keggin-type heteropoly acids are easily available and having stable structure while Wells–Dawson-type heteropoly acids are included in super acid class, due to these reasons heteropoly acids are considered as best acidic catalysts for biodiesel production by catalytic transesterification process. Therefore, this review also focused on the deactivation, regeneration and advantages of supported solid acid catalysts used for the catalytic production of biodiesel through transesterification.     

Carbohydrate-derived Solid Acid Catalysts for Biodiesel Production from Low-Cost Feedstocks: A Review

Currently, most biodiesels are produced from virgin vegetable oils using a transesterification reaction. However, there are a number of other potential cheap sources for biodiesels, such as deep-frying oils/fats and palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD). PFAD is a lower-value by-product of the palm oil industry and is an economical source for biodiesel production. Due to the high cost of biodiesel production, the formulation of a new method to produce a cheaper biodiesel is imperative. Low-quality feedstocks (especially PFAD) using green and highly reusable catalysts have gained popularity due to their low production cost. High free fatty acids (HFFA) in the feedstock causes problems during the biodiesel production process, especially with the use of basic heterogeneous and homogenous catalysts. Recently, the effectiveness of a solid acid catalyst to catalyze biodiesel production from HFFA feedstock has caught the attention of researchers.

This comprehensive article explores the use of low-quality feedstocks and carbon-based catalysts for the conversion of a waste refinery crude palm oil product which contains a high percentage of FFA. The production and characterization of carbohydrate-derived solid acid catalysts are discussed, including their physico-chemical property measurements. Techniques used for the synthesis of biodiesels are also included. In addition, transesterification process variables such as the oil/methanol molar ratio, catalyst concentration, reaction time, and temperature are investigated. The final part of the article contains the combustion, emissions, and performance of produced biodiesels. Finally, conclusions, including perspectives and future developments, are also presented. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the current state of the use of low-quality feedstocks and green heterogeneous solid acid catalysts for the use in biodiesel production.     

Activity of solid catalysts for biodiesel production: A review

Heterogeneous catalysts are promising for the transesterification reaction of vegetable oils to produce biodiesel. Unlike homogeneous, heterogeneous catalysts are environmentally benign and could be operated in continuous processes. Moreover they can be reused and regenerated. However a high molar ratio of alcohol to oil, large amount of catalyst and high temperature and pressure are required when utilizing heterogeneous catalyst to produce biodiesel. In this paper, the catalytic activity of several solid base and acid catalysts, particularly metal oxides and supported metal oxides, was reviewed. Solid acid catalysts were able to do transesterification and esterification reactions simultaneously and convert oils with high amount of FFA (Free Fatty Acids). However, the reaction rate in the presence of solid base catalysts was faster. The catalyst efficiency depended on several factors such as specific surface area, pore size, pore volume and active site concentration.     

Sulfonic acid-functionalized mesoporous silica catalyst with different morphology for biodiesel production

Sulfonic acid functionalized mesoporous silica based solid acid catalysts with different morphology were designed and fabricated. The synthesized materials were characterized by various physicochemical and spectroscopic techniques like scanning electron microscope-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area, thermogravimetric analysis and n-butylamine acidity. The shape of catalysts particles plays an important role in its activity. The sulfonic acid functionalized mesoporous silica catalysts of spherical shape and the cube shape were assessed for catalytic activity in biodiesel production. The catalytic biodiesel production reaction over the catalysts were studied by esterification of free fatty acid, oleic acid with methanol. The effect of various reaction parameters such as catalyst concentration, acid/alcohol molar ratio, catalyst amount, reaction temperature and reaction time on catalytic activity were investigated to optimize the conditions for maximum conversion. It was sulfonated cubic shape mesoporous silica which exhibited better activity as compared to the spherical shape silica catalysts. Additionally, the catalyst was regenerated and reused up to three cycles without any significant loss in activity. The present catalysts exhibit superior performance in biodiesel production and it can be used for the several biodiesel feedstock’s that are rich in free fatty acids.