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Produção de biodiesel a partir do processamento das oleaginosas amazônicas compadre-do-azeite (Plukenethia polyadenia) e comadre-do-azeite (Onphalea diandra)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-06) FURTADO, Matheus Braga; MACÊDO, Emanuel Negrão; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8718370108324505; FARIA, Lênio José Guerreiro de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7428609361678173
Analyse experimentally the production of biodiesel from oilseeds processing compadre of Amazonian oil (plukenethia polyadenia) and Ruth-of-oil (Aubrey onphalea), as a potentially viable alternative to compose the energy matrix. Since the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the world energy matrix has always been based on fossil fuels. With the scarcity of such fuels, the rise of prices caused with the constant conflicts in major producing regions, has become the research into renewable sources increasingly attractive. The study of new sources of vegetable oils as alternative energy is important for the Country, particularly for the Amazon; enabling structure of oilseeds production chains in the region, generating employment in the field, distributional effects on regional economy and a vector of sustainable development in the Amazon, no aggression to the environment. The purpose of this work is to study two species of the family euphorbiaceae, lianas and polyadenia Onphalea Plukenethia diandra, better known as compadre of the olive oil and the olive oil Cummer respectively, oil-producing; extract and characterize them, suggesting possible applications and using them for the production of biodiesel through Transesterification using methyl potassium hydroxide as a catalyst, in the case the process based on statistical tests planned. The influence of input variables: oil/alcohol concentration, temperature and concentration of catalyst on biodiesel yield response by response surface methodology (RSM) employing the Box-Behenken planning. The aim is thus to add value to a tailing kaolin processing industry, using zeolites produced this material as a catalyst to KOH, comparing the efficiencies of the two treatments. The Box-planning Benhken proved efficient to optimize the homogeneous catalysis of the biodieseis, concluding that the concentration of the catalyst was the variable controlling the production process of biodieseis, and the increase of its concentration cause negative and undesirable influence the yield of the product.
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Síntese de catalisador heterogêneo magnético básico aplicado no processo de produção de biodiesel
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-08-30) SANTOS, Hiarla Cristina Lima dos; CONCEIÇÃO, Leyvison Rafael Vieira da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7467898936995220
This research focus on the development of a basic magnetic heterogeneous catalyst, using, for the first time, NaAlO2 as an active species supported in a magnetic material, CuFe2O4, being highly stable and effective to produce value-added products, such as biodiesel. With this purpose, a series of catalysts (x-NaAlO2/CuFe2O4) have been successfully synthesized by means of conventional and low-cost methods, such as coprecipitation and impregnation, each one being assessed in the soybean oil transesterification reaction. The features of the 25-NaAlO2/CuFe2O4 catalyst with the higher performance have been elucidated through techniques such as basicity by acid-base titration method, XRD, FTIR, SEM, EDS, TG/DTG and VSM. To optimize the biodiesel’s ester content, the face-centered central composite design (FCCD), integrated with the response surface methodology (RSM), was employed to assess the effect of the following aspects on the process: reaction temperature, MeOH:oil molar ratio, catalyst dosage and reaction time. The regression model presented R2 = 0.9394 and experimentally reached a maximum ester content of 95.9% (relative error < 5%) attributed to the biodiesel attained under the following optimal reaction conditions: temperature of 95 °C, MeOH:oil molar ratio of 13:1, catalyst dosage of 8% and time of 60 min. The NaAlO2/CuFe2O4 catalyst presented a stable catalytic performance during four transesterification cycles (>90.0%) and an efficient magnetic property for the catalyst separation and recovery process (Ms = 23.62 emu g-1). The results showed that the biodiesel’s physicochemical properties were in compliance with ASTM D6751 standard. Finally, this extensive study reveals the basic magnetic heterogeneous catalyst NaAlO2/CuFe2O4 as a practical and promising alternative to produce a sustainable biofuel.