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T1 Available Technologies and Materials for Waste Cooking Oil Recycling
A1 Mannu, Alberto
A1 Garroni, Sebastiano
A1 Ibáñez Porras, Jesús
A1 Mele, Andrea
K1 Waste cooking oil
K1 Biolubricant
K1 Biodiesel
K1 Recycling
K1 Vegetable oil filtration
K1 Vegetable oil degumming
K1 Química
K1 Chemistry
AB Recently, the interest in converting waste cooking oils (WCOs) to raw materials has grown exponentially. The driving force of such a trend is mainly represented by the increasing number of WCO applications, combined with the definition, in many countries, of new regulations on waste management. From an industrial perspective, the simple chemical composition of WCOs make them suitable as valuable chemical building blocks, in fuel, materials, and lubricant productions. The sustainability of such applications is sprightly related to proper recycling procedures. In this context, the development of new recycling processes, as well as the optimization of the existing ones, represents a priority for applied chemistry, chemical engineering, and material science. With the aim of providing useful updates to the scientific community involved in vegetable oil processing, the current available technologies for WCO recycling are herein reported, described, and discussed. In detail, two main types of WCO treatments will be considered: chemical transformations, to exploit the chemical functional groups present in the waste for the synthesis of added value products, and physical treatments as extraction, filtration, and distillation procedures. The first part, regarding chemical synthesis, will be connected mostly to the production of fuels. The second part, concerning physical treatments, will focus on bio-lubricant production. Moreover, during the description of filtering procedures, a special focus will be given to the development and applicability of new materials and technologies for WCO treatments.
PB MDPI
SN 2227-9717
YR 2020
FD 2020-03-22
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9482
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9482
LA eng
NO The authors thank Sonia Martel Martin for the kind help in managing the collaboration with UBU and all of the people involved from the MSCA RISE 2019 project proposal WORLD (873005).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 11-dic-2024