Determination of the Best Conditions of Biodiesel Production with Free Form Lipases on Refining Palm Oil to Laboratory Scale

The enzymatic production of biodiesel has different opportunities and advantages over chemical production as improvements in the production process of biodiesel and removing byproducts, treatment of different raw materials, reduced costs associated with the operation ^1,2,3.However the production process of biodiesel with enzymes in free form, must overcome different constraints by conditions in the medium as the stability of reaction, yields, the possibility of reuse or costs associated with the reaction³. This project was aimed to find the best conditions that would allow a high conversion to biodiesel in the laboratory, which was performed by enzymatic catalysis RBD palm oil with the formulation Eversa Transform feeding regularly with methanol to a reaction period of 9 hours. The best conditions biodiesel production were molar ratio of alcohol - oil 4.1, 34 ° C and percentage of enzyme 1.1% for a 74% with a achieved prediction by the model of 80%, where finally the biodiesel convertion is affected with increased alcohol in the medium and decreasing temperature, and linearly favored by amount of enzyme. These conditions were found by implementing the methodology MSR.

KEYWORDS: Biodiesel, Palm Oil, Lipases, Methanol

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http://doi.org/10.1002/bit.22256