A Novel Process for Continuous Production of High Quality Biodiesel with Ion-Exchange Resin Catalysts
update:2020/06/16
- Features and Uniqueness
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- We successfully developed a continuous production process for high-quality biodiesel. This production technology is very simple, just passing through the reactors packed with ion-exchange resins without complicated upstream and downstream processes, which provide additional production cost and environmental stress and the entire process is fully automatic. With this technology, you can easily produce high-quality biodiesel from various cheaper oils with fatty acid content up to 100%.
- Practical Application
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This innovative technology succeeds in solving the serious problems in the current biodiesel production, restriction by shortage of feedstock supply and the unstable quality of biodiesel due to the soap formation. This technology also applies to the production of fatty acid methyl ester, a starting material for surfactant production, which is an important intermediate step in oleochemistry.
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Researchers
Graduate School of Engineering
Naomi Kitakawa, Professor
Doctor of Engineering