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Estudo comparativo dos processos de separação na obtenção do biodiesel de óleo de palma bruto (Elaeis guineensis, Jacq)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-05-05) RIBEIRO, Haroldo Jorge da Silva; ARAÚJO, Marilena Emmi; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8983914018546682; MACHADO, Nelio Teixeira; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5698208558551065
This work investigated the influence of the separation processes on the yield and properties relating to the quality of biodiesel from crude palm oil ( Elaeis guineensis, Jacq ) obtained in laboratory scale , such as decantation , centrifugation , evaporation , washing and dehydration, where the following operating conditions are used : the settling time ( sludge/neutral oil ) - 120 minutes at 50 ° C; settling time used for washing the neutral oil 60, 90 and 120 minutes at 50 °C; H2O percentages used in washing the neutral oil 10%, 20% and 30% ( m./m.); temperatures centrifugation for separating the neutral/oil sludge and washings neutral oil 40, 50 and 60 °C; temperature and pressure range of dehydration of neutral oil and biodiesel and 80 °C from 480,0 to 80,0 mbar respectively; temperature and pressure in the evaporation of excess ethanol 75 °C and 213,3 and 146,6 respectively March; the settling time of biodiesel/glycerol system and washes 60, 90 and 180 minutes at 50 °C; operating temperature used in the centrifuge separation system biodiesel/glycerin 50 °C; H2O percentage of biodiesel used for washing by centrifugation 20% relative to the ester phase. The results found that neutralization in general was satisfactory as generated about 10% of blurs, highlighting the Experiment 1 that generated about 84,6% by weight of neutral oil. Washes in 90 minutes (Exp. 1) and 20% water (exp.2) showed the best performance for the separation by settling, while in the process of centrifugation and washing better separation occurred at 40 and 50 ° C respectively. In relation to the evaporation of ethanol, the best percentage in alcohol was obtained at 80 °C and 1466 mbar. Regarding the separation of phases rich in glycerol esters and the process of centrifugation at 50 °C led to a better quality biodiesel, however, the best yields were observed in the biodiesel from the settling process. The final evaluation of the biodiesel produced in this study was positive, because most of the analyzed parameters is according to the official specifications.
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Modelagem e simulação de processos de separação a altas pressões: aplicações com Aspen hysys
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014) CUNHA, Vânia Maria Borges; MACHADO, Nélio Teixeira de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5698208558551065; ARAÚJO, Marilena Emmi; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8983914018546682
The purpose of this work was to elaborate a database of binary interaction parameters of different mixing rules, for the Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) and Peng-Robinson (PR) equations of state, using experimental data of binary and multicomponent systems of hydrocarbons, N2, CO2, water, β-carotene, ethanol, acetone and methanol, in order to apply in simulations with the Aspen Hysys fractionation processes, of natural gas into a simplified turbo-expansion process; fractionation of oil, gas and water, in three-phase separator, supercritical CO2 extraction of acetone from an aqueous solution and β-carotene from an aqueous solution in multistage countercurrent column. In general, there were no significant differences, to both equations, in the phase equilibrium prediction of the binary systems studied, between the quadratic and Mathias-Klotz-Prausnitz (MKP) mixing rules with two and three parameters. It is worth mentioning that the MKP mixing rule with 3 binary interaction parameters presented the smallest absolute errors for hydrocarbon binary systems and CO2/hydrocarbons systems. For the settings of hydrocarbons phase equilibrium multicomponent systems data, the SRK equation combined with quadratic mixture rule with 2 binary interaction parameters, was presented the lowest average errors for ternary systems and for system with 5 components in both phases. In the case study of three-phase separator the SRK equation with the mixing rule RK-Aspen was the one that presented the greater separation of the aqueous phase of all simulations (285.68 kg/h) against 256.88 kg/h to the SRK equation, 249.81 kg/h for the PR equation and 152.90 kg/h to PRSV equation, confirming the great influence of the use the binary interaction parameters matrix determined in this work, with emphasis on the parameters that represent the interactions between the hydrocarbons with water. The results of the simulations with the simplified plant turboexpansion are according to the analysis described in the literature showing the following recovery rates of ethane: 84.045% to PRSV, 84.042% for SRK, 84.039% for TST and PR and 83.98% for RK-Aspen. The final product of the simulation published in the literature for the fractionation of an aqueous solution of acetone by using supercritical CO2 extraction process consisted in the output current from the bottom of the distillation column at 65 atm (6586 kPa), with a composition of 67.67% CO2 (74.3 kg/h), 31.11% of acetone (34.15 kg/h) and 1.21% (1.33 kg/h) of water in mass base. In the simulation with Aspen Hysys the output current of the distillation column was subjected to a set of flash separators for separation of CO2 reaching the recovery of 27 kg/h of acetone in three currents (11.14 and 15) with less than 5 kg/h CO2 waste and 0.8 kg/h of water. The fractionation of aqueous solution of β- carotene was simulated with the Aspen Hysys, with a multistage countercurrent column and a vertical flash separator for separation of CO2. The simulations have converged with a minimum of five stages. It was retrieved from an underflow (product) flash separator with 97.83% of β-carotene against 89.95% by mass for the simulation of an extractor of a single stage published in the literature.
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Modelagem e simulação de sistemas multicomponentes a altas pressões aplicada a separação de compostos bioativos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-04-30) SILVA, Welisson de Araújo; ARAÚJO, Marilena Emmi; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8983914018546682
Large applications using supercritical fluids related to the fractionation of natural products have been studied in recent decades. This work had as objective the thermodynamic modeling of phase equilibrium of binary and multicomponent systems of vegetable oils related compounds (fatty acids, triglycerides, squalene, α-tocopherol and methyl and ethyl esters of fatty acids) with supercritical carbon dioxide, using the cubic equations of state of Soave-Redich-Kwong (SRK) and Peng-Robinson (PR), with the Quadratic and Mathias-Klotz-Prausnitz mixing rules, to build a database of binary interaction parameters between these constituents and between these constituents with carbon dioxide, with an emphasis on the interactions related to bioactive compounds. The equations of PR and SRK showed efficiency in correlation of binary systems equilibrium data. For most binary systems experimental data fit, with the mixing rules with two binary interaction parameters, obtained good results and cash equivalents when compared with the mixing rules with three parameters. For multicomponent systems, when the experimental data were correlated with the PE program, employing both equations with quadratic mixing rule, shown convergence, best results for phase equilibrium description and the representativeness of the thermodynamic analysis of separation through the distribution coefficients were obtained. For the CO2 (1)/(2) oleic acid/linoleic acid (3) system, the prediction of equilibrium with an interaction parameters matrix of binary systems proved equivalent in relation to the use of multicomponent systems interaction parameters. In relation to the CO2 (1)/Methyl Myristate (2)/Methyl Palmitate (3) system the results obtained from the calculation using the interaction parameters matrix of binary systems, as with the parameters of interaction of multicomponent system, showed average deviation similar to the temperature of 323.15 K. For the CO2 (1)/Squalene (2)/(3)/Triolein oleic acid (4) system, the best results were obtained by the Quadratic mixing rule with the multi-component system interaction parameters. In relation to the CO2 (1)/(2) oleic acid/Palmitic acid (3)/Squalene (4) system, the results obtained using the interaction parameters matrix of binary systems showed average deviations below 8%. The calculation of the ELV for the CO2 (1)/Methyl Myristate (2)/Methyl Palmitate (3)/Methyl Oleate (4)/Methyl Stearate (5) system, with the EDEflash and PE program with Quadratic mixture rule, using the interaction parameters matrix from binary systems showed similar results. For the CO2 (1)/Ethyl Palmitate (2)/ Ethyl Stearate(3)/ Ethyl Oleate (4)/ Ethyl Linoleate (5) (palm oil ethyl esters) system, the prediction of the ELV with the SRK combined with Quadratic mixing rule, using the interaction parameters matrix from binary systems, presented results with deviations below 4% in both phases at 333.15 K.
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Simulação da separação e purificação do biodiesel de óleo de palma com CO2 supercrítico
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-07-11) GONÇALVES, Aline Lobato; ARAÚJO, Marilena Emmi; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8983914018546682
Biodiesel has attracted growing attention worldwide in recent years. The production of biodiesel from biomass involves separation and purification steps. The method generally used, the aqueous washing, has major disadvantages such as the generation of wastewater and forming emulsions. The objective of present work is to investigate the biodiesel purification using carbon dioxide, which in supercritical conditions has properties capable of separating glycerol phase of esterified phase (biodiesel), providing higher quality products and less waste. In this study, two simulations were used for analysis and investigation of purification of crude palm oil biodiesel. Both configurations conventionally designed the project process via ethylic route by basic catalysis to the reaction step. The "case 1" used a fractional distillation column for separating excess ethanol and a liquid-liquid column extraction using water as solvent for the separation of glycerol. The "case 2" applied a fractionating column in countercurrent, used for the glycerol separation step, carbon dioxide as supercritical solvent and for separating excess of ethanol, a flash vessel in the final purification of biodiesel. The simulator employed was Aspen HYSYS V8.4 that used binary parameters, adjusted with the equations of state of Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) and Redlich-Kwong-Aspen (RK-ASPEN) to study systems, performed the simulations appropriately. The supercritical CO2 proved to be efficient in the separation of glycerol, given that biodiesel produced with this purification technology met the ANP main standards rules.