With regards to oil-based diesel fuel, the adoption of bio-derived diesel fuel was estimated to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 75%, considering the whole life cycle. In this paper, we present a novel continuous-flow process able to transfer an equimolar amount of CO2 (through urea) to glycerol, producing glycerol carbonate. This represents a convenient tool, able to both improve the efficiency of the biodiesel production through the conversion of waste streams into added-value chemicals and to beneficially contribute to the whole carbon cycle. By means of a Design of Experiments approach, the influence of key operating variables on the product yield was studied and statistically modeled.

Upgrading of Biobased Glycerol to Glycerol Carbonate as a Tool to Reduce the CO2 Emissions of the Biodiesel Fuel Life Cycle / Anderlini, Biagio; Ughetti, Alberto; Cristoni, Emma; Forti, Luca; Rigamonti, Luca; Roncaglia, Fabrizio. - In: BIOENGINEERING. - ISSN 2306-5354. - 9:12(2022), pp. 1-13. [10.3390/bioengineering9120778]

Upgrading of Biobased Glycerol to Glycerol Carbonate as a Tool to Reduce the CO2 Emissions of the Biodiesel Fuel Life Cycle

Biagio Anderlini;Alberto Ughetti;Luca Forti;Luca Rigamonti;Fabrizio Roncaglia
2022

Abstract

With regards to oil-based diesel fuel, the adoption of bio-derived diesel fuel was estimated to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 75%, considering the whole life cycle. In this paper, we present a novel continuous-flow process able to transfer an equimolar amount of CO2 (through urea) to glycerol, producing glycerol carbonate. This represents a convenient tool, able to both improve the efficiency of the biodiesel production through the conversion of waste streams into added-value chemicals and to beneficially contribute to the whole carbon cycle. By means of a Design of Experiments approach, the influence of key operating variables on the product yield was studied and statistically modeled.
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Upgrading of Biobased Glycerol to Glycerol Carbonate as a Tool to Reduce the CO2 Emissions of the Biodiesel Fuel Life Cycle / Anderlini, Biagio; Ughetti, Alberto; Cristoni, Emma; Forti, Luca; Rigamonti, Luca; Roncaglia, Fabrizio. - In: BIOENGINEERING. - ISSN 2306-5354. - 9:12(2022), pp. 1-13. [10.3390/bioengineering9120778]
Anderlini, Biagio; Ughetti, Alberto; Cristoni, Emma; Forti, Luca; Rigamonti, Luca; Roncaglia, Fabrizio
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