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Abstract
This work reports the use of FT-NIR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate calibration to determine the percentage of free fatty acids (FFA) in samples obtained by the esterification of FFA in vegetable oils. The analytical method used as calibration matrix samples of the reaction medium of esterification of oleic acid in soybean oil in proportions of 0.3 to 40 wt% (by weight) of oleic acid obtained under different experimental conditions and utilized the partial least squares (PLS) regression. The efficiency of the method was tested to predict the content of FFA in reactions of esterification of oleic acid in soybean oil catalysed by KSF clay and Amberlyst 15 commercial resin, both in a batch mode. Good Correlations were observed between the FT-NIR/PLS method and the reference method (AOCS). The results confirm that FT-NIR spectroscopy, in combination with multivariate calibration, is a promising technique for monitoring esterification reaction for biodiesel production.
Highlights
The merits of biodiesel obtained from vegetable oils or animal fats as an alternative to mineral diesel comprise a nontoxic, biodegradable, and a domestically produced and renewable source which is well documented in the literature [1, 2]
Methyl or ethyl, esters can be usually obtained from free fatty acid (FFA) esterification reaction, through vegetable oils hydrolysis followed by the fatty acid esterification or from direct vegetable oils transesterification [13]
Forty samples of esterification of oleic acid in soybean oil were used for the development of the calibration model for the free fatty acids (FFA) content
Summary
The merits of biodiesel (fatty acid ethyl or methyl esters) obtained from vegetable oils or animal fats as an alternative to mineral diesel comprise a nontoxic, biodegradable, and a domestically produced and renewable source which is well documented in the literature [1, 2]. The noncatalytic reaction, using alcohol under supercritical conditions at high temperatures and pressures, has been investigated as an alternative method for fatty acid esters production [10,11,12]. Methyl or ethyl, esters can be usually obtained from free fatty acid (FFA) esterification reaction, through vegetable oils hydrolysis followed by the fatty acid esterification or from direct vegetable oils transesterification [13]. Recent studies propose to obtain esters in two reaction steps of substrates with high acidity, consisting of two approaches: (1) esterification of FFA and subsequent transesterification of triglycerides [19,20,21,22] or (2) hydrolysis of triglycerides, followed by esterification of fatty acids obtained [23,24,25]
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