Title:
Catalytic Cracking of Pure Fatty Acids in a Continuous Small Scale Pilot Plant
Author(s):
Bielansky, P., Reichhold, A., Schönberger, C., Weinert, A.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Fluid catalytic cracking is one of the most important refinery processes for gasoline production. It could be shown in previous works that vegetable oils are a suitable feedstock for the FCC process. One of the most important criterions for biofuels is its profitability. Due to the high costs of virgin vegetable oils products from a “BIO-FCC” are expected to be considerably more expensive than petrol-derived products. Crude palm oil contains high amounts of free fatty acids which are removed during refining as so called palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD). The price of PFAD is approximately 50% of purified palm oil. All experiments were conducted in a fully continuous small scale pilot plant with internal CFB design.
Keywords:
catalytic conversion, circulating fluidised bed (CFB), palm oil, petrochemicals substitute, renewable energies, biofuels, renewable energy
Topic:
Fuels from biomass
Subtopic:
Technologies and demonstration of second generation biofuels
Event:
18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
VP3.5.5
Pages:
1834 - 1839
ISBN-13:
978-88-89407-56-1
ISBN-10:
88-89407-56-5
Paper DOI:
10.5071/18thEUBCE2010-VP3.5.5
Price:
FREE
