EP2522712A1 - Procédé pour obtenir des esters d'alkyl d'acides gras inférieurs à partir de graisses et d'huiles - Google Patents
Procédé pour obtenir des esters d'alkyl d'acides gras inférieurs à partir de graisses et d'huiles Download PDFInfo
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- C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
- C11C—FATTY ACIDS FROM FATS, OILS OR WAXES; CANDLES; FATS, OILS OR FATTY ACIDS BY CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF FATS, OILS, OR FATTY ACIDS OBTAINED THEREFROM
- C11C3/00—Fats, oils, or fatty acids by chemical modification of fats, oils, or fatty acids obtained therefrom
- C11C3/003—Fats, oils, or fatty acids by chemical modification of fats, oils, or fatty acids obtained therefrom by esterification of fatty acids with alcohols
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- a major advantage of the low pressure transesterification technology is related to the lower processing costs, in particular lower energy consumption, lower alcohol excess, lower maintenance costs and lower investment costs, if compared to high pressure transesterification.
- the high pressure transesterification has the advantage, that cheaper raw materials and waste fat streams can be converted.
- the column internals are chosen from structured or dumped packing or trays depending on the solids and gum content of the crude oil. For example, in case of coconut or palm kernel oil structured packing is preferred due to low pressure drop. For oils with higher solids/gum content umbrella bubble cap trays are preferred due to lower pressure drop than for other tray types.
- the height of the packings can be about 3 to about 8 and preferably about 4 to about 6 m.
- the number of trays should be about 6 to about 18, preferably about 8 to about 14. Partial condensation of the fatty acid vapors is performed by a partial condenser (dephlegmator) or preferably by a direct condensation in a packing (5) with recirculation loop and external plate cooler (6).
- Vapors leaving the partial condenser are condensed in the second condenser (7).
- An additional feature of the invention is to install an additional packing (8) above the feed and to run the column with a small reflux of the first distillate in order to reduce the amount of glycerides in the fatty acid distillate. In this case an additional reboiler (9) is required to provide the heat of vaporization for the reflux stream.
- the de-acidification column should be operated at a vacuum of about 2 to about 20 and preferably about 5 to about 10 mbar.
- the crude oil feed should be heated to about 225 to about 280 and preferably about 245 to about 260 °C.
- the stripping steam rate should be adjusted to about 1 to about 5, and preferably about 1 to about 2 % of the crude oil feed rate.
- the resulting acid values of the de-acidified oils are between about 0.02 and about 1, preferably about 0.1 to about 0.5, the resulting water content between about 0.01 and about 0.1, preferably about 0.01 to about 0.03 %.
- the alkyl esters, generated by the described two esterification procedures can be routed to the following step (c) or to an additional high pressure transesterification step.
- Step c Low pressure transesterification of de-acidified crude oil
- the low pressure transesterification can be performed in two stages at temperatures in the range of about 65 to about 90 °C.
- the de-acidified and dried crude oil is mixed with the lower alcohol, preferably methanol, and catalyst, heated to reaction temperature and routed to a first reactor (14). After the first reaction stage the formed glycerol is separated from the reaction mixture by gravity. The reaction mixture is then fed to a second reactor (15) together with additional alcohol and catalyst.
- Suitable equipments to perform the reactions are e.g. static mixers combined with tube reactors or mixer settlers as shown in Figure 1 . Mixer settlers are advantageous with regard of turndown ratios, since at lower feed rates the mixing efficiency is still good and the conversion even improved, while for tube reactors the mixing efficiency is reduced at lower flow rates. It is also possible to combine the elements, e.g. a mixer-settler with a tube reactor.
- the reaction pressure is dependent on reaction temperature due to the vapor pressure of the alcohol and may range from about 1 to about 5 bar.
- Alcohol:oil ratios are typically in the range of about 0.2 to about 0.35, preferably about 100 % in excess compared to stoichiometric consumption for the first reaction step, while for the second reaction step the ratio can be decreased by a factor of about 10.
- Step d Methanol removal from methyl ester
- the alcohol recovered from the alkyl ester phase has a water content of typically less than 0.2 %, so that the alcohol can be recycled to the transesterification without further separation of water.
- Short chain alkyl esters evaporated together with the methanol are trapped by a condenser and routed back to the feed as recycle stream.
- a final embodiment of the present invention is directed to equipment for conducting a process for obtaining fatty acid C 1 -C 4 alkyl esters from unrefined fats and oils comprising
- coconut fatty acid distillate achieved from the de-acidification step described in example 1 was fed to a static mixer at a flow rate of 2.5 kg/hr, where it was continuously mixed with 1.0 kg/hr methanol.
- the mixture was preheated to 100 °C via a preheater and subsequently fed to two reaction vessels filled with granular acidic ion exchange catalyst Lewatit K2641, each catalyst bed having a volume of 10 l.
- the reaction mixture from the 1 st reaction was stripped from water and methanol under vacuum before pas-sing a 2 nd static mixer together with 0.3 kg of methanol and entering the 2 nd fixed bed reactor.
- Measured AV after 1 st and 2 nd reaction stages were 18.6 and 0.98 respectively
- the methyl ester phase from the first settler was fed to the second mixing chamber together with 0.5 kg/hr of a methanol/sodium methylate/water mixture, having the same composition like added to the first mixing stage. Additional glycerol generated by the transesterification reaction in the second mixing chamber was separated by gravity from the methyl ester in the second settling zone and both phases were taken continuously from the second settler.
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WO2007113530A2 (fr) * | 2006-03-31 | 2007-10-11 | Greenergy Biofuels Limited | Production de biodiesel |
EP1892232A1 (fr) * | 2006-08-21 | 2008-02-27 | Desmet Ballestra Oleo s.p.a. | Production d'esters d'acides gras et alcools inférieurs |
US20090294358A1 (en) | 2007-10-30 | 2009-12-03 | Bayer Technology Services Gmbh | Process for heterogeneously catalysed esterfication of fatty acids |
US20100205853A1 (en) * | 2007-10-09 | 2010-08-19 | Council Of Scientific & Industrial Research | Process for the Preparation of Biodiesel from Vegetable Oils Containing High FFA |
US20100249442A1 (en) * | 2007-10-30 | 2010-09-30 | Bayer Technology Sevices Gmbh | Continuous method for the heterogenically catalyzed esterification of fatty acids |
US20100298586A1 (en) * | 2007-12-19 | 2010-11-25 | Bayer Technology Services Gmbh | Method for producing fatty acid alkyl esters |
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WO2007113530A2 (fr) * | 2006-03-31 | 2007-10-11 | Greenergy Biofuels Limited | Production de biodiesel |
EP1892232A1 (fr) * | 2006-08-21 | 2008-02-27 | Desmet Ballestra Oleo s.p.a. | Production d'esters d'acides gras et alcools inférieurs |
US20100205853A1 (en) * | 2007-10-09 | 2010-08-19 | Council Of Scientific & Industrial Research | Process for the Preparation of Biodiesel from Vegetable Oils Containing High FFA |
US20090294358A1 (en) | 2007-10-30 | 2009-12-03 | Bayer Technology Services Gmbh | Process for heterogeneously catalysed esterfication of fatty acids |
US20100249442A1 (en) * | 2007-10-30 | 2010-09-30 | Bayer Technology Sevices Gmbh | Continuous method for the heterogenically catalyzed esterification of fatty acids |
US20100298586A1 (en) * | 2007-12-19 | 2010-11-25 | Bayer Technology Services Gmbh | Method for producing fatty acid alkyl esters |
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