Imperial College London
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Professor Sue Grimes

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

RAEng Chair in Waste & Resource Management
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5966s.grimes

 
 
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233Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Grimes:2017:10.1002/jctb.5207,
author = {Grimes, SM and Kewcharoenwong, P},
doi = {10.1002/jctb.5207},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology},
pages = {2098--2105},
title = {Dual-functionality ionic liquid mix for extraction and esterification of fatty acids as a step towards increasing the efficiency of conversion of waste cooking oils to biodiesel},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jctb.5207},
volume = {92},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - BACKGROUND: The increasing value of pure vegetable oils has made the use of waste cooking oils an attractive alternative feedstock for biodiesel production but the presence of free fatty acids in the waste significantly reduces efficiency of the conversion.RESULTS: A low-temperature mixed ionic liquid system with dual extraction and catalytic functions for the conversion of waste oils containing high levels of free fatty acids to biodiesel was successfully trialled. The solvent, a totally miscible system of HPyrBr and the Brønsted acid, SPyrHSO4, allows the key properties of each ionic liquid, as extractant or catalyst, to work uninhibited by the presence of the other. Extraction of free fatty acids from vegetable oils and their conversion to methyl esters in high yield is demonstrated for vegetable oils, containing single and mixed fatty acids, and for a model waste cooking oil. The oil separated from free fatty acids in the waste has a low acid value and can be converted efficiently to biodiesel; with the ionic liquid solvent recovered unchanged for reuse.CONCLUSIONS: A mixed ionic liquid extraction-esterification solvent process has been developed to effect efficient conversion of free fatty acids in waste vegetable oils to biodiesel and their conversion to esters.
AU  - Grimes,SM
AU  - Kewcharoenwong,P
DO  - 10.1002/jctb.5207
EP  - 2105
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0268-2575
SP  - 2098
TI  - Dual-functionality ionic liquid mix for extraction and esterification of fatty acids as a step towards increasing the efficiency of conversion of waste cooking oils to biodiesel
T2  - Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jctb.5207
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jctb.5207
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/44644
VL  - 92
ER  -
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