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MDPI, Catalysts, 1(10), p. 5, 2019

DOI: 10.3390/catal10010005

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Glycerol Acetylation Mediated by Thermally Hydrolysed Biosolids-Based Material

Journal article published in 2019 by Mattia Bartoli ORCID, Chengyong Zhu ORCID, Michael Chae, David C. Bressler ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Crude glycerol is the main by-product of many renewable diesel production platforms. However, the process of refining glycerol from this crude by-product stream is very expensive, and thus does not currently compete with alternative processes. The acetylation of glycerol provides an intriguing strategy to recover value-added products that are employable as fuel additives. In this work, the conversion of glycerol to acetyl derivatives was facilitated by a heterogeneous catalyst generated from the thermal hydrolysis of biosolids obtained from a municipal wastewater treatment facility. The reaction was studied using several conditions including temperature, catalyst loading, acetic acid:glycerol molar ratio, and reaction time. The data demonstrate the potential for using two distinct by-product streams to generate fuel additives that can help improve the process economics of renewable diesel production.