Cost analysis of oil cake-to-biodiesel production in packed bed micro-flow reactors with immobilized lipases (CROSBI ID 259117)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Budžaki, Sandra ; Sundaram, Smitha ; Tišma, Marina ; Hessel, Volker
engleski
Cost analysis of oil cake-to-biodiesel production in packed bed micro-flow reactors with immobilized lipases
Biodiesel production depends to a great extent on the use of cheap raw materials, since biodiesel itself is a mass product, not a high- value product. New processing methods, such as micro-flow continuous processing combined with enzymatic catalysis, open doors to the latter. As reported here, the window of opportunity in enzyme-catalysed biodiesel production is the conversion of waste cooking oil. The main technological challenge for this is to obtain efficient immobilization of the lipase catalyst on beads. The beads can be filled into tubular reactors where designed packed bed provide porous channels, forming micro-flow. It turns out, that in this way, the immobilization costs become the decisive economic factor. This paper reports a solution to that issue. The use of oil cake enables economic viability, which is not given by any of the commercial polymeric substrates used so far for enzyme immobilization. The costs of immobilization are mirrored in the earnings and cash flow of the new biotechnological process.
biodiesel ; cost-benefit ; immobilized lipase ; oil cake ; packed bed microreactor
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Podaci o izdanju
128 (1)
2019.
98-102
objavljeno
1389-1723
1347-4421
10.1016/j.jbiosc.2019.01.004
Povezanost rada
Kemijsko inženjerstvo, Biotehnologija, Prehrambena tehnologija