Design of a Small Pilot Plant for the Study of Supercritical Processes for the Production of Biodiesel from Waste Chicken Fat

Author

Nguyen, N.A. ; Rice, Philip A. ; Tavlarides, Lawrence L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. & Chem. Eng., Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

5-7 April 2013

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

156

Abstract

A process to produce biodiesel from chicken fat and other oils using supercritical methanol at 200 bars and 400^oC with residence times 6-9 minutes was designed using CHEMCAD. Major process units for the process (pumps, heat exchangers, reactor, and distillation columns) were sized and the heating and cooling requirements for several process variations were evaluated. Methanol to oil ratios or 6/1, 9/1 and 9/1 with recycle were considered. The results were then used to estimate the cost of a small pilot plant to produce 2 gal/day of biodiesel fuel.

Keywords

biofuel; biotechnology; chemical reactors; distillation equipment; fats; heat exchangers; pumps; CHEMCAD; biodiesel fuel production; biodiesel production; cooling requirement evaluation; distillation column size; heat exchanger size; heating requirement evaluation; major process unit; methanol-oil ratio; pressure 200 bar; pump size; reactor size; small pilot plant cost estimation; small pilot plant design; supercritical methanol; supercritical process; temperature 400 degC; time 6 min to 9 min; waste chicken fat; Biofuels; Distillation equipment; Heat pumps; Heating; Inductors; Methanol; Recycling; Biofuels; Chemcad; Supercritical Process;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2013 39th Annual Northeast

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

ISSN

2160-7001

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4928-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBEC.2013.76

Filename

6574404