Effective production of the biodiesel additive STBE by a continuous flow process

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 9304-9307

  Monbaliu, Jean Christophe M ^a   Winter, Marc ^b   Chevalier, Bérengère ^b   Schmidt, Frank ^b   Jiang, Yi ^b   Hoogendoorn, Ronald ^c   Kousemaker, Michiel A ^c   Stevens, Christian V ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Corning European Technology Center ^*  (France)

^c Delta Biovalue BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flow chemistry; Glycerol; Industrial chemistry; Renewable fuel additive; Sustainable chemistry

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FLOWS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW PROCESS; CORNING GLASS; FLOW CHEMISTRY; FLOW CONDITION; GLASS REACTORS; HEAT-EXCHANGE; HOLD UP; INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY; RENEWABLE FUEL ADDITIVE; SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY; TERT-BUTYL ETHERS;

BIODIESEL; CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; ETHERS; GLASS; GLYCEROL; HEAT RESISTANCE;

FUEL ADDITIVES;

BIODIESEL; GLYCEROL; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

BIOFUEL; FLOW PATTERN; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; HEAT EXCHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION;

BIOFUELS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; GLYCEROL; GLYCERYL ETHERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 80052528912     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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