Nextchem S.p.a.

Nextchem Tech S.p.a.

Antonio Zarli

Marco Scarsella

Paolo De Filippis

Maria Sarno

Mariagrazia Iuliano

Gianluca Viscusi

A hydrotreating and isomerization pre-treatment process in a biofuel production plant, which is characterized in that it occurs from a raw supply consisting of an organic feed comprising secondary materials such as frying oils, category 1 animal fats, residual oils or by-products consisting of monoglycerides, diglycerides, triglycerides and free fatty acids, which is added to a recycling stream consisting of a mixture of mono-, di- and triglycerides free of impurities and exiting an esterification unit, said process occurring by means of hydrolysis with excess water, under controlled pressure and temperature conditions, thus obtaining the partial or total conversion of the supply into glycerol and fatty acids, the excess water introduced into the hydrolysis process acting as a solvent for impurities of various nature present in ionic form, thus removing most of the heavy metals, as well as of the chlorides present in said supply.

Process for the pre-treatment of feeds for the production of biofuels by hydrolysis of fats at high temperature and pressure

An autocatalytic process for producing fatty acids from fatty acids methyl esters with an overall conversion higher than 90% which includes multiple hydrolysis reactions in series, in purely thermal conditions, with intermediate separation of phases after each hydrolysis reaction and before the subsequent, operating in excess of water, in order to separate the methanol/water phases from the equilibrium phase and favor the formation of fatty acids product.

Method and apparatus to produce fatty acids from methyl esters throughout non-catalytic process

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Antonio Zarli