Glycerol derived material
AssigneeBio-Energy Ingredients Limited
InventorsRichard Alwyn Houseman, Abraham Christo Venter
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Abstract
A method of producing a solid glycerol derived material includes the steps of combining glycerol with a metal oxide, the glycerol having a water content of between about 5 and 50%, and the rate of combination of the glycerol and the metal oxide and the amount of the metal oxide being selected so that at least part of the water present in the glycerol reacts with the metal oxide in an exothermic reaction and at least part is driven off by heat produced in the exothermic reaction to produce the solid glycerol derived material.
Claims21
A method of producing a particulate glycerol derived material, the method comprising:
- a step of adding starting material glycerol having a water content between about 9% and 18% and a metal oxide as reactants into a single reaction vessel;
- wherein the molar ratio rate between the metal oxide to water being between 0.1 and 10, and the combination of the glycerol and the metal oxide creating an exothermic reaction between the glycerol and the metal oxide to reduce the water content of the glycerol;
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- wherein the method directly produces the particulate glycerol derived material.
A method of producing a particulate glycerol derived material, the method comprising:
- a step of adding starting material glycerol having a water content between 5% and 50% and a metal oxide as reactants into a single reaction vessel;
- wherein the molar ratio rate between the metal oxide to water being between 0.1 and 10, and the combination of the glycerol and the metal oxide creating an exothermic reaction between the glycerol and the metal oxide to reduce the water content of the glycerol;
- wherein the glycerol and the metal oxide are combined with at least one additional component, the or each additional component being selected from inorganic acids, organic acids and mixtures thereof, and wherein the method directly produces the particulate glycerol derived material.
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