Recent progress on innovative and potential technologies for glycerol transformation into fuel additives: A critical review

Glycerol emerges as a significant worth chemical that can be converted into high value products. In the prospect of biorefinery industries and great demand towards renewable sources, glycerol has proved to have tremendous potential to be transformed, thus supersede conventional petroleum derived fue...

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Published in:Renewable & sustainable energy reviews 2010-04, Vol.14 (3), p.987-1000
Main Authors: Rahmat, Norhasyimi, Abdullah, Ahmad Zuhairi, Mohamed, Abdul Rahman
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acetalation
Acetylation
Applied sciences
Catalyst
Crude oil
Crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products
Energy
Etherification
Exact sciences and technology
Fuel additives
Fuels
Glycerol
Glycerol Oxygenate fuel additive Etherification Acetylation Acetalation Catalyst
Glycerols
Marketing
Oxygenate fuel additive
Oxygenated
Petroleum products, gas and fuels. Motor fuels, lubricants and asphalts
Refining
Transformations
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Summary:Glycerol emerges as a significant worth chemical that can be converted into high value products. In the prospect of biorefinery industries and great demand towards renewable sources, glycerol has proved to have tremendous potential to be transformed, thus supersede conventional petroleum derived fuel additive. Various types of oxygenated biocomponents and rigorous studies of glycerol transformation into fuel additives are presented in this review paper. Particular focus is given to etherification, acetylation and acetalation processes with specific behaviors in the respective reaction system.
ISSN:1364-0321
1879-0690
DOI:10.1016/j.rser.2009.11.010