Abstract
Energy policies in the US and in the EU during the last decades have been focused on enhanced oil and gas recovery, including the so-called tertiary extraction or enhanced oil recovery (EOR), on one hand, and the development and implementation of renewable energy vectors, on the other, including biofuels as bioethanol (mainly in US and Brazil) and biodiesel (mainly in the EU) [...]
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Crude glycerol is the main by-product from biodiesel processes based on homogeneous acid and basic catalysis, the main technology used nowadays
Organic synthetic processes based on thermal and catalytic routes are being developed from crude and from pure glycerol, whose prices are around 2000–3000 US$ per ton [5]
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Crude glycerol is the main by-product from biodiesel processes based on homogeneous acid and basic catalysis, the main technology used nowadays.
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