Mixed oxides tuned with alkaline metals to improve glycerolysis for biodiesel sustainable production

NANCY BÁLSAMO; S. SARMIENTO; EDUARDO HERRERO; GRISELDA EIMER; MÓNICA CRIVELLO

Río de Janeiro

Congreso; 3rd International Congress on Catalysis for Biorefineries; 2015

Biofuels are renewable solutions to replace the environmentally pollutant fossil liquid fuels. They are produced from low cost sustainable feed stocks. Thus, the special increase on biodiesel production is generating high quantities of glycerol as by-product. Economic indexes related to biodiesel production features, as well as the competitiveness between selling prices of biodiesel and petrodiesel indicated that the success of biodiesel production still requires additional revenues beyond that derived from biodiesel itself, including income from the feedstock co-products and glycerol.