Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil

Reactive distillation column (RD column) is a hybrid equipment that combines two of major equipment, i.e. reactor and distillation column. RD column brings many advantages to the chemical industries especially in reducing the cost of building plant, and energy consumption. Biodiesel is an excellent...

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Main Author:	Mohd Usman, Mohd Junaidi
Format:	Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	TP Chemical technology
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/1/CD5656_MOHD_USMAN_BIN_MOHD_JUNAIDI.pdf

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spelling	ump-25032015-03-03T07:56:59Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/ Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil Mohd Usman, Mohd Junaidi TP Chemical technology Reactive distillation column (RD column) is a hybrid equipment that combines two of major equipment, i.e. reactor and distillation column. RD column brings many advantages to the chemical industries especially in reducing the cost of building plant, and energy consumption. Biodiesel is an excellent substitute for conventional diesel fuel because of being renewable, nontoxic and biodegradable. In the biodiesel industry, mainly for the biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil (JCO oil); the reactive distillation is still being a new technology. The JCO oil contains high percentage of triolein and oleic acid which are really useful for engine performance. This study is mainly based on simulation method by using Aspen Plus 12.1 software. The biodiesel routes process used is triglyceride hydrolysis and fatty acid esterification process. This study will focus on oleic acid esterification with methanol in the reactive distillation column to produce methyl oleate. The simulation was done in equilibrium stage model incorporate with kinetic of reaction model using RADFRAC unit as the RD column model. The purpose of the simulation carried out is to determine the effect of important parameters, i.e. reflux ratio, column pressure, feed temperature, etc, that affect the RD column performance and design the optimized RD column condition to achieve highest product conversion. In the nutshell, the optimum parameters for simulated RD column are; reflux ratio 0.01, feed temperature at 363.15K @ 900C, column pressure at 100 kPa, 14 stages with 6 reactive stages, and oleic acid and methanol feed locations, accordingly, at 3nd stage and 8th stage, to achieve 99.65% of oleic acid conversion to biodiesel. 2010-11 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/1/CD5656_MOHD_USMAN_BIN_MOHD_JUNAIDI.pdf Mohd Usman, Mohd Junaidi (2010) Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil. Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering , Universiti Malaysia Pahang . http://iportal.ump.edu.my/lib/item?id=chamo:57782&theme=UMP2
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description	Reactive distillation column (RD column) is a hybrid equipment that combines two of major equipment, i.e. reactor and distillation column. RD column brings many advantages to the chemical industries especially in reducing the cost of building plant, and energy consumption. Biodiesel is an excellent substitute for conventional diesel fuel because of being renewable, nontoxic and biodegradable. In the biodiesel industry, mainly for the biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil (JCO oil); the reactive distillation is still being a new technology. The JCO oil contains high percentage of triolein and oleic acid which are really useful for engine performance. This study is mainly based on simulation method by using Aspen Plus 12.1 software. The biodiesel routes process used is triglyceride hydrolysis and fatty acid esterification process. This study will focus on oleic acid esterification with methanol in the reactive distillation column to produce methyl oleate. The simulation was done in equilibrium stage model incorporate with kinetic of reaction model using RADFRAC unit as the RD column model. The purpose of the simulation carried out is to determine the effect of important parameters, i.e. reflux ratio, column pressure, feed temperature, etc, that affect the RD column performance and design the optimized RD column condition to achieve highest product conversion. In the nutshell, the optimum parameters for simulated RD column are; reflux ratio 0.01, feed temperature at 363.15K @ 900C, column pressure at 100 kPa, 14 stages with 6 reactive stages, and oleic acid and methanol feed locations, accordingly, at 3nd stage and 8th stage, to achieve 99.65% of oleic acid conversion to biodiesel.
format	Undergraduates Project Papers
author	Mohd Usman, Mohd Junaidi
author_facet	Mohd Usman, Mohd Junaidi
author_sort	Mohd Usman, Mohd Junaidi
title	Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil
title_short	Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil
title_full	Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil
title_fullStr	Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil
title_full_unstemmed	Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil
title_sort	simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from jatropha curcas seed oil
publishDate	2010
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2503/1/CD5656_MOHD_USMAN_BIN_MOHD_JUNAIDI.pdf
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Simulation of reactive distillation for biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas seed oil

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