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Article

Production of Sustainable Biochemicals by Means of Esterification Reaction and Heterogeneous Acid Catalysts

by
Rosa Vitiello
1,*,
Francesco Taddeo
1,
Vincenzo Russo
1,2,
Rosa Turco
1,
Antonio Buonerba
3,
Alfonso Grassi
3,
Martino Di Serio
1,4 and
Riccardo Tesser
1,*
1
Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Napoli, Italy
2
Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Piispankatu, 20500 Turku, Finland
3
Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
4
IROAST, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
ChemEngineering 2021, 5(3), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5030046
Submission received: 7 July 2021 / Revised: 2 August 2021 / Accepted: 4 August 2021 / Published: 7 August 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Chemical Engineering)
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Abstract

In recent years, the use of renewable raw materials for the production of chemicals has been the subject of different studies. In particular, the interest of the present study was the use of oleins, mixtures of free fatty acids (FFAs), and oleic acid to produce bio-based components for lubricants formulations and the investigation of the performance of a styrene-divinylbenzene acid resin (sPSB-SA) in the esterification reaction of fatty acids. This resin has shown good activity as a heterogeneous catalyst and high stability at elevated temperatures (180 °C). It was tested in the esterification reaction of oleic acid with 1,3-propanediol and of oleic acid with glycerol. In particular, the esterification reactions were performed in a steel stirred batch reactor and a PBR loop reactor. Tests were conducted varying the reaction conditions, such as alcohol type, temperature, reaction time, and catalysts, both homogeneous and heterogeneous ones. From the obtained results, acid resin (both in reticulated and not-reticulated form) showed high activity in esterification reaction of oleic acid with 1,3-propanediol and of oleic acid with glycerol and good resistance to the deactivation; thus, they can be considered promising candidates for future applications in continuous devices. Viscosity tests were performed, underlining the good properties of the obtained products as lubricant bases.
Keywords: oleic acid; biochemicals; esterification; catalysis; lubricants oleic acid; biochemicals; esterification; catalysis; lubricants

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Vitiello, R.; Taddeo, F.; Russo, V.; Turco, R.; Buonerba, A.; Grassi, A.; Di Serio, M.; Tesser, R. Production of Sustainable Biochemicals by Means of Esterification Reaction and Heterogeneous Acid Catalysts. ChemEngineering 2021, 5, 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5030046

AMA Style

Vitiello R, Taddeo F, Russo V, Turco R, Buonerba A, Grassi A, Di Serio M, Tesser R. Production of Sustainable Biochemicals by Means of Esterification Reaction and Heterogeneous Acid Catalysts. ChemEngineering. 2021; 5(3):46. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5030046

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Vitiello, Rosa, Francesco Taddeo, Vincenzo Russo, Rosa Turco, Antonio Buonerba, Alfonso Grassi, Martino Di Serio, and Riccardo Tesser. 2021. "Production of Sustainable Biochemicals by Means of Esterification Reaction and Heterogeneous Acid Catalysts" ChemEngineering 5, no. 3: 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5030046

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Vitiello, R., Taddeo, F., Russo, V., Turco, R., Buonerba, A., Grassi, A., Di Serio, M., & Tesser, R. (2021). Production of Sustainable Biochemicals by Means of Esterification Reaction and Heterogeneous Acid Catalysts. ChemEngineering, 5(3), 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5030046

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