Glycerol Derivatives as Fuel Additive: Synthesis of Solketal From Glycerol and Acetone With Various Acid Clay Catalysts
- 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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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- 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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TY - CONF AU - Imtisal Zahid AU - Muhammad Ayoub AU - Bawadi B. Abdullah AU - Muhammad Hamza Nazir AU - Zulqarnain PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/30 TI - Glycerol Derivatives as Fuel Additive: Synthesis of Solketal From Glycerol and Acetone With Various Acid Clay Catalysts BT - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 292 EP - 296 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.201229.038 DO - 10.2991/aer.k.201229.038 ID - Zahid2020 ER -