Use of reactive distillation in biodiesel production: A simulation-based comparison of energy requirements and profitability indicators

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• 作者：Tuhin Poddar ; Anoop Jagannath ; Ali Almansoori ; ^{aalmansoori@pi.ac.ae}
• 关键词：Biodiesel ; Reactive distillation ; Process simulation ; Column grand composite curves ; Profitability analysis
• 刊名：Applied Energy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：185
• 期：part_P2
• 页码：985-997
• 全文大小：1180 K
• 卷排序：185

文摘

Simulation of two reactive distillation processes for biodiesel production is showcased. Column duty optimization and heat integration is performed for both processes. Economic analysis was performed using different profitability indicators. Heterogeneous-catalyzed process is more advantageous over alkali-catalyzed process.