<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>To investigate the effect of reactor performance/configuration of biodiesel production on process parameters (mass &amp; energy consumption, required facilities etc.), two diverse production processes (from vegetable oil) were implemented/designed using Aspen HYSYS V7.2. Two series reactors were taken into account where overall conversion was set to be 97.7% and 70% in first and second processes respectively. Comparative analysis showed that an increase in conversion yield caused to consumption reduction of oil, methanol, cold energy and hot energy up to 9.1%, 22%, 67.16% and 60.28% respectively; further, a number of facilities (e.g. boiler, heat exchanger, distillation tower) were reduced. To reduce mass &amp; energy consumption, mass/heat integration method was employed. Applying integration method showed that in the first design, methanol, cold and hot energy were decreased by 49.81%, 17.46% and 36.17% respectively; while in the second design, oil, methanol, cold and hot energy were decreased by 9%, 60.57% 19.62% and 36.58% respectively.</p></abstract>

To investigate the effect of reactor performance/configuration of biodiesel production on process parameters (mass & energy consumption, required facilities etc.), two diverse production processes (from vegetable oil) were implemented/designed using Aspen HYSYS V7.2. Two series reactors were taken into account where overall conversion was set to be 97.7% and 70% in first and second processes respectively. Comparative analysis showed that an increase in conversion yield caused to consumption reduction of oil, methanol, cold energy and hot energy up to 9.1%, 22%, 67.16% and 60.28% respectively; further, a number of facilities (e.g. boiler, heat exchanger, distillation tower) were reduced. To reduce mass & energy consumption, mass/heat integration method was employed. Applying integration method showed that in the first design, methanol, cold and hot energy were decreased by 49.81%, 17.46% and 36.17% respectively; while in the second design, oil, methanol, cold and hot energy were decreased by 9%, 60.57% 19.62% and 36.58% respectively.

Biodiesel production from vegetable oil: Process design, evaluation and optimization

Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Chemical Engineering

Amirkabir University of Technology (TehranPolytechnic)

Polish Journal of Chemical Technology

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To investigate the effect of reactor performance/configuration of biodiesel production on process parameters (mass & energy consumption, required facilities...

Biodiesel production from vegetable oil: Process design, evaluation and optimization

Published Online: Oct 10, 2017

Page range: 49 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pjct-2017-0048

Keywords
Process Design, Heat & Mass Integration, Biodiesel, Pinch Technology, Heat Exchanger Network

© 2017 Hamid Reza Kianimanesh et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Biodiesel production from vegetable oil: Process design, evaluation and optimization

Published Online: Oct 10, 2017

Page range: 49 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pjct-2017-0048

KeywordsProcess Design, Heat & Mass Integration, Biodiesel, Pinch Technology, Heat Exchanger Network

© 2017 Hamid Reza Kianimanesh et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Process Design, Heat & Mass Integration, Biodiesel, Pinch Technology, Heat Exchanger Network