TY - JOUR AB - Biodiesel is a renewable fuel that consists of fatty acids methyl esters - currently produced by transesterification of glycerides with methanol. After the biodiesel synthesis, the downstream processing steps involve the purification of crude glycerol, as well as the separation of excess methanol (recyclable), glycerol by-product and water (from washing and pre-treatment step). The separation of the ternary mixture methanol-water-glycerol is carried out in a conventional direct sequence that requires two distillation columns and rather high amounts of energy. AD - Univ Politehn Bucuresti, Dept Chem Engn, Bucharest 011061, Romania AN - WOS:000319510300190 AU - Ignat, R. M. AU - Kiss, A. A. DO - 10.3303/Cet1229191 J2 - Chem Engineer Trans KW - dividing-wall columns LA - English N1 - Bfe73 PY - 2012 SN - 1974-9791 SP - 1141-1146 ST - Energy Efficient Recovery of Methanol and Glycerol in Biodiesel Production T2 - Pres 2012: 15th International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction TI - Energy Efficient Recovery of Methanol and Glycerol in Biodiesel Production UR - ://WOS:000319510300190 VL - 29 ID - 7638 ER -