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Chemistry and Technology of Fuels and Oils, Vol.46, No.1, 1-8, 2010
DEVELOPMENT OF A PROCESS FOR REFINING RAPE SEED OIL INTO BIODIESEL AND HIGH-CETANE COMPONENTS OF DIESEL FUEL
New technology for refining vegetable oil (in particular, rapeseed oil) is proposed; a distinctive feature is the use of one transesterification reactor with a stationary bed of heterogeneous catalyst and an additional stage of hydrotreating of part of the biodiesel to obtain green diesel (high-cetane hydrocarbons) that can be used as an ameliorant for traditional diesel fuels is proposed. The material and heat balances were calculated for the proposed technology.