abstract
The knowledge and the capacity to describe the liquid-liquid equilibria of systems composed of fatty acid ethyl esters, ethanol and water are crucial for an adequate design of the biodiesel washing units found in the ethylic biodiesel production processes. Since limited data is available for systems of this kind, in this work measurements were carried out for fatty acid ethyl esters + ethanol + water systems containing some of the fatty acid ethyl esters most commonly found in biodiesels: ethyl linoleate + ethanol + water at 313.15 K, technical grade ethyl oleate + ethanol + water at 298.15 K and ethyl palmitate + ethanol + water at 298.15, 308.15 and 333.15 K. The experimental data were predicted with the Cubic-Plus-Association equation of state (CPA EoS). Using temperature independent interaction parameters, obtained from binary data, this equation of state was able to provide a very good prediction of the phase diagrams of the studied systems, with average global deviations of only 3.09%. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
keywords
EQUATION-OF-STATE; PHASE-EQUILIBRIA; BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; MUTUAL SOLUBILITIES; ASSOCIATING FLUIDS; ANHYDROUS ETHANOL; ALCOHOL SYSTEMS; VEGETABLE-OILS; 333.15 K; HYDROCARBONS
subject category
Energy & Fuels; Engineering
authors
Follegatti-Romero, LA; Oliveira, MB; Batista, EAC; Coutinho, JAP; Meirelles, AJA
our authors
Mariana Belo Oliveira
Post-doc Fellowshipacknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge FAPESP (08/56258-8), CNPq (304495/2010-7 and 480992/2009-6), CAPES/PEC-PG, CAPES and CAPES/PNPD for their financial support and scholarship.