TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a process for manufacturing industrially important chemical products from sustainable, bio-based glycerol
AU - Seay, Jeffrey R.
AU - Eden, Mario R.
AU - D'Alessandro, Robert N.
AU - Thomas, Thomas
AU - Redlingshoefer, Hubert
AU - Weckbecker, Christoph
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The second phase of a research study involving the development of a conceptual process to produce industrially important chemicals from sustainable, biomass derived glycerol is presented. Due to the lack of complete reaction data for glycerol dehydration, a laboratory-scale mini-plant was designed and built to study the reaction. The laboratory mini-plant included a liquid feed system, feed vaporizer, a fixed bed catalytic reactor, and analytical equipment to measure the concentrations of various components in the reactor effluent. The processes developed for the separation and purification of the product were based on economically viable targets. The project holds potential for significant contributions to economic and environmental sustainability by the development of novel production processes which are based on cost effective, renewable raw materials. The proposed conceptual processes would be optimized using process integration tools. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA 11/12-17/2006).
AB - The second phase of a research study involving the development of a conceptual process to produce industrially important chemicals from sustainable, biomass derived glycerol is presented. Due to the lack of complete reaction data for glycerol dehydration, a laboratory-scale mini-plant was designed and built to study the reaction. The laboratory mini-plant included a liquid feed system, feed vaporizer, a fixed bed catalytic reactor, and analytical equipment to measure the concentrations of various components in the reactor effluent. The processes developed for the separation and purification of the product were based on economically viable targets. The project holds potential for significant contributions to economic and environmental sustainability by the development of novel production processes which are based on cost effective, renewable raw materials. The proposed conceptual processes would be optimized using process integration tools. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA 11/12-17/2006).
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:58049122822
SN - 081691012X
SN - 9780816910120
T3 - AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings
BT - 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting
T2 - 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting
Y2 - 12 November 2006 through 17 November 2006
ER -