Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020)

Glycerol Derivatives as Fuel Additive: Synthesis of Solketal From Glycerol and Acetone With Various Acid Clay Catalysts

Authors
Imtisal Zahid, Muhammad Ayoub, Bawadi B. Abdullah, Muhammad Hamza Nazir, Zulqarnain
Corresponding Author
Muhammad Ayoub
Available Online 30 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/aer.k.201229.038How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Glycerol, solketal, montmorillonite, aluminium pillared clay
Abstract

Currently, the huge bulk of glycerol formed during biodiesel production as a by-product offered an abundant and low-cost feedstock. Researchers have shown a growing interest in using glycerol as a sustainable feedstock to produce functional chemicals. In this work, ketalization of glycerol using acetone performed over various acid clay catalysts (montmorillonite, aluminum pillared clay and bentonite) in a batch reactor. Effect of temperature and various catalyst on the solketal yield were observed. Among these heterogeneous clay catalysts at 30°C for 30 min reaction time with acetone/glycerol ratio 2:1 the maximum yield of solketal 60% was attained with aluminium pillared clay catalyst. On the other hand, the solketal yield was 58% with montmorillonite catalyst at 40°C at same other conditions. This method provides an enticing way to convert glycerol to solketal – a green valuable product with possible commercial applications. The solketal obtained could be formulated from renewable resources such as glycerol and acetone extracted from biomass and would like to be a suitable approach for various applications such as fuel additives and in medicine industries.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
30 December 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-310-3
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/aer.k.201229.038How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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