Optimization of glycerol ketalization to produce solketal as biodiesel additive in a continuous reactor with subcritical acetone using Purolite® PD206 as catalyst
2014
Shirani, Mahboube | Ghaziaskar, Hassan S. | Xu, Chunbao (Charles)
This paper represents a continuous, easy to scale up, high yield, 100% selective ketalization of glycerol to solketal (4-hydroxy methyl-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane) over Purolite® PD206 in subcritical acetone. A central composite design was used to obtain the optimum conditions for five effective parameters of temperature, pressure, acetone to glycerol mole ratio, feed flow rate, and the catalyst mass. At a temperature of 20°C, a pressure of 120bar, acetone to glycerol mole ratio of 5, feed flow rate of 0.1mL·min⁻¹, and the catalyst mass of 0.77g, a 95% yield was achieved experimentally which is close to the model yield prediction of 100%. This agreement showed that the central composite design model could ideally make an acceptable estimation of the process.
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