Continuous flow system for the production and purification of biodiesel
AssigneeYmir Technologies Ehf.
InventorsOddur Ingolfsson, Asgeir Matthiasson, Eirikur Bjarnason, Sigurdur Ingolfsson
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Abstract
Provided is a system and method for producing and purifying biodiesel. In particular, the system comprises a tandem arrangement of at a modular biodiesel reactor and a continuous flow separation and purification unit. The system can further comprise an evaporation unit that is placed between the biodiesel reactor and the continuous flow separation and purification unit.
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A continuous flow biodiesel production and purification system comprising a tandem arrangement comprising at least one continuous flow modular biodiesel reactor unit and at least one continuous flow separation and purification unit, wherein the modular biodiesel reactor unit comprises a plurality of contact plates, comprising flow perturbing elements for enhancing turbulent mixing and, providing adjacent reactant channel and thermal channel for reactant mixture and thermal media for temperature control, respectively.
A method for the continuous production of biodiesel, the method comprising:
- a. providing a continuous stream of reactants comprising free fatty acids and/or fatty acid glycerides comprising fat and/or oil into a biodiesel reactor, where said reactants are reacted in a continuous turbulent flow with at least one alcohol and thus converted into fatty acid esters and/or transesterified fatty acid glycerides;
- b. removing excess alcohol and/or water by evaporation to provide crude biodiesel;
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- c. converting the resulting crude biodiesel to purified biodiesel by a continuous process that includes at least one separation step, at least one wet washing step and at least one purification step.
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