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By-Products of Biodiesel and Their Recycling

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After transesterification reaction for biodiesel production, the glycerol-rich phases have to be separated. These phases are traditionally separated by settling, requiring long residence time, especially when soaps and gels are formed. This chapter presents the use of glycerol, showing the quantity and diversity of work related to the search for alternatives to add value to glycerol. It was found that 85.7% of the filed patents fell into four categories of applications: (1) manufacture of chemical products; (2) production of polymer compounds; (3) production of biofuels and biogas; and ((4) purification and use of glycerol. In this regard, the development of new technologies for the use of glycerol, without the need for traditional purification steps, is fundamental. This chapter portrays the efforts that have been made in this direction and the obstacles that still have to be overcome.

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  1. School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

    Lin Lin, Mohamed Abdel Shafi Abdel Samie & Haiying Cui

  2. Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Sciences, Arish University, El-Arish, North Sinai, Arish, Egypt

    Mohamed Abdel Shafi Abdel Samie

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  1. Hunan Academy of Forestry, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Changzhu Li

  2. Institute of Biomass Energy, Hunan Academy of Forestry, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Zhihong Xiao

  3. Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

    Liangnian He

  4. Department of Chemical Science, University of Naples Federico II, Centralino, Napoli, Italy

    Martino Di Serio

  5. School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA

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Lin, L., Abdel Samie, M.A., Cui, H. (2020). By-Products of Biodiesel and Their Recycling. In: Li, C., Xiao, Z., He, L., Serio, M., Xie, X. (eds) Industrial Oil Plant. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4920-5_6

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