Homogeneous Tubular-Flow Process for Monoolein Preparation

Moti Herskowitz; Miron V. Landau; Slava Koukouliev; Ruby Zarchin; Roxana Vidruk Nehemya; Lik H. Wee; Johan A. Martens

doi:10.1007/s11746-015-2707-3

Homogeneous Tubular-Flow Process for Monoolein Preparation

Moti Herskowitz, Miron V. Landau, Slava Koukouliev, Ruby Zarchin, Roxana Vidruk Nehemya, Lik H. Wee, Johan A. Martens

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Esterification of fatty acids with glycerol is characterized by negligible solubility of the two liquid phases. The reactions to mono-, di- and triglycerides taking place in the fatty acid phase, are limited by chemical equilibrium. The scope of this study is to investigate in a tubular reactor the conversion of a homogeneous mixture of oleic acid and glycerol in tert-butanol. The liquid composition in this study was 1 mol of oleic acid, 6 mol of glycerol and 14 mol of tert-butanol. Experiments were conducted in a tubular reactor at 35 atm over a temperature range of 200-240 °C and residence times of 0.7-17.6 h to determine the kinetics and the chemical equilibrium. The selectivity to monoolein was >95 mol %. A reversible second order reaction fits the data well.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1525-1529
Number of pages	5
Journal	JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society
Volume	92
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11746-015-2707-3
State	Published - 3 Oct 2015

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Homogeneous tubular-flow process
Monoolein production in tert-butanol

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General Chemical Engineering
Organic Chemistry

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