Data di Pubblicazione:
2014
Citazione:
Epoxy methyl soyate as bio-plasticizer : two different preparation strategies / F. Galli, S. Nucci, C. Pirola, C.L. Bianchi. - In: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING TRANSACTIONS. - ISSN 2283-9216. - 37(2014), pp. 601-606. ((Intervento presentato al 1. convegno International Congress on Biomass tenutosi a Firenze nel 2014 [10.3303/CET1437101].
Abstract:
Due to the recent rise in production costs of biodiesel and considering the necessity to use
environmentally friend production way, bio-plasticizers obtained from vegetable oils were developed. Bioplasticizer
are essentially constituted by epoxidized vegetable oils (EVO) (rich in unsaturated compounds
as soybean, sunflower and rapeseed oils).These kind of products have got good plasticizer properties and
are easily biodegraded by microbial agents. The main advantages of these additives are their low diffusion
coefficients in the polymeric matrix and a very low volatility. In recent years epoxidised fatty acid methyl
esters (EME) have been developed, because they are more soluble and confers better flexibility to the
plastic even at low temperatures. The main problem associated with these products lies in their content of
satured methyl esters. This fraction cannot be epoxydised and has got a very low affinity with the
polymeric matrix, so that tends to migrate at the plastic surface giving not desired properties to the final
products. The aim of this work is to find the best reaction conditions in terms of epoxide yield, using acetic
acid and hydrogen peroxide, and to apply these condition either to 1) a fractionated biodiesel (i.e. without
satured esters) or 2) to soybean biodiesel in order to obtain EME and then distillate it to remove the
unreacted esters. Both the strategies were studied by experimental batch epoxidation test and vacuum
distillation runs. A better bio-plasticer was obtained (epoxide number of about five) using the first strategy,
i.e. by a distillation of starting biodiesel, perfomed at 0.5 torr using a two equilibrium stage batch distillation
apparatus, followed by the epoxidation reaction.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
F. Galli, S. Nucci, C. Pirola, C.L. Bianchi
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