Production of Biodiesel from an Olive Oil Industry Waste

ALVAREZ SERAFINI M.; REINOSO D.; TONETTO G.

Congreso; 2nd RCN Conference on Pan American Biofuels & Bioenergy Sustainability; 2017

In this study, alperujo has been successfully usedas feedstock to obtain biodiesel using zinc stearate as a new clean catalystfor an environmentally-friendly biodiesel production. The catalyst was able tocatalyze simultaneously the triglyceride transesterification and the fatty acidesterification reactions with high activity and selectivity under moderateoperating conditions