TY - GEN
T1 - Design of a small pilot plant for the study of supercritical processes for the production of biodiesel from waste chicken fat
AU - Nguyen, Nga A.
AU - Rice, Philip A.
AU - Tavlarides, Lawrence L.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A process to produce biodiesel from chicken fat and other oils using supercritical methanol at 200 bars and 400oC with residence times 6-9 minutes was designed using CHEMCAD. Major process units for the process (pumps, heat exchangers, reactor, and distillation columns) were sized and the heating and cooling requirements for several process variations were evaluated. Methanol to oil ratios or 6/1, 9/1 and 9/1 with recycle were considered. The results were then used to estimate the cost of a small pilot plant to produce 2 gal/day of biodiesel fuel.
AB - A process to produce biodiesel from chicken fat and other oils using supercritical methanol at 200 bars and 400oC with residence times 6-9 minutes was designed using CHEMCAD. Major process units for the process (pumps, heat exchangers, reactor, and distillation columns) were sized and the heating and cooling requirements for several process variations were evaluated. Methanol to oil ratios or 6/1, 9/1 and 9/1 with recycle were considered. The results were then used to estimate the cost of a small pilot plant to produce 2 gal/day of biodiesel fuel.
KW - Biofuels
KW - Chemcad
KW - Supercritical Process
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U2 - 10.1109/NEBEC.2013.76
DO - 10.1109/NEBEC.2013.76
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887008372
SN - 9780769549644
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC
SP - 155
EP - 156
BT - Proceedings - 39th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC 2013
T2 - 39th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC 2013
Y2 - 5 April 2013 through 7 April 2013
ER -