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Biodiesel Production Technology, August 2002 to January 2004

Gerpen, J. Van
Shanks, B.
Pruszko, R.

Iowa State University

In this pdf format, this document has 110 pages and is 1.42MB.

Table of Contents

Background
1 Basics of Biodiesel Production 1
2 Basic Organic Chemistry 7
3 Biodiesel Specifications and Properties 22
Biodiesel Production Processes
4 Types of Biodiesel Production Processes 30
  Laboratory - Exercise 1 41

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Basic Plant Equipment and Operation 43
6 Chemical Plant Controls 48
7 Pretreatment of High Free Fatty Acid Feedstocks 52
8 Patent Discussion 56
9 Patent List for Biodiesel 62
10 Post Reaction Processing 66
11 Treatment and Recovery of Side Streams 75
  Laboratory - Exercise 2 78
Biodiesel Plant Logistics
12 Feedstock Preparation 79
13 Feedstock Quality Issues 90
14 Plant Safety 92
15 Biodiesel Transportation and Storage 98
16 Product Quality 101
  Laboratory - Exercise 105