Biodiesel production from vegetable oil: Process design, evaluation and optimization

• Autorzy: Kianimanesh H. R. , Abbaspour-Aghdam F. , Derakhshan M. V.

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DOI

10.1515/pjct-2017-0048

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

To investigate the effect of reactor performance/configuration of biodiesel production on process parameters (mass & energy consumption, required facilities etc.), two diverse production processes (from vegetable oil) were implemented/designed using Aspen HYSYS V7.2. Two series reactors were taken into account where overall conversion was set to be 97.7% and 70% in first and second processes respectively. Comparative analysis showed that an increase in conversion yield caused to consumption reduction of oil, methanol, cold energy and hot energy up to 9.1%, 22%, 67.16% and 60.28% respectively; further, a number of facilities (e.g. boiler, heat exchanger, distillation tower) were reduced. To reduce mass & energy consumption, mass/heat integration method was employed. Applying integration method showed that in the first design, methanol, cold and hot energy were decreased by 49.81%, 17.46% and 36.17% respectively; while in the second design, oil, methanol, cold and hot energy were decreased by 9%, 60.57% 19.62% and 36.58% respectively.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

process design; Heat & Mass Integration; biodiesel; Pinch Technology; Heat Exchanger Network

• Wydawca: West Pomeranian University of Technology. Publishing House
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: Vol. 19, nr 3
• Strony: 49--55
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 46 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Kianimanesh H. R.

• Sahand University of Technology, Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tabriz, Iran

autor

Abbaspour-Aghdam F.

• Sahand University of Technology, Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tabriz, Iran

autor

Derakhshan M. V.

• Amirkabir University of Technology (TehranPolytechnic), Departmentof Chemical Engineering, Tehran, Iran

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Uwagi

Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (zadania 2017).