Olefin production through pyrolysis of triacylglycerols

✍ Scribed by Jan Šmidrkal; Zdenek Belohlav; Petr Zámostný; Vladimír Filip

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 855 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0956-666X
• DOI: 10.1002/lite.200900054

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Triacylglycerols (in Europe particularly rapeseed oil) are the favoured raw materials for production of methyl esters to be used as biodiesel. Another possibility is pyrolysis of triacyglycerols to low molecular weight alkenes and other hydrocarbons. During thermal decomposition under conditions matching those of gas‐oil steam cracking (short residence time, temperature over 800°C) we found the same compounds (mainly ethylene and propylene) as those from classic mineral oil fraction pyrolysis.